What does home mean to you? I’ve never moved before until now, the big college move. I may not be far from home but 162 miles seems enough to me. I have started to think about this concept of “home” after returning for my first visit back from college. It’s bizarre to return to a place you once felt so comfortable in only to see that life has gone on with out you and you no longer particularly belong anymore. I decided to do a little research and see what other people say that home means to them.
According to Webster’s dictionary- Home is: a place of residence, a familiar or usual setting, a place of origin, relaxed and comfortable, in harmony with the surroundings, on familiar ground.
Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Bloom where you are planted.-Mary Engelbreit
Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to. ~John Ed Pearce
One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening – the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life – and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up. ~Lemony Snicket
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule. ~Frederick W. Robertson
In your life you’re going to go to some great places, and you’re going to do some wonderful things. But no matter where you go or who you become, this place will always be with you. There is only one Tree Hill. And it’s your home.-Karen, OTH.
I love the people in my hometown and I kind of have this feeling right now that I never want to leave. But at the same time I know that my place is now in Orlando and I need to make it “home” there. God help me! This will be a hard journey.
PS For those of you always wanting to leave home, don’t rush it. Once your gone I promise you will miss everything about it!
