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Oct 8, 2007 23:27:45 GMT -5
Post by LaFace on Oct 8, 2007 23:27:45 GMT -5
To be short and concise, I think home is where you wish to be when you are scared or in danger
eg. if you were in hospital for a serious emergency, where would you wish you were if everything could be all good again?
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Oct 9, 2007 13:44:38 GMT -5
Post by thesa on Oct 9, 2007 13:44:38 GMT -5
I'm curious.. Has anyone found "home" in ..a person? For me, home actually = family I've never lived longer than 4 years in any place and moving aroung a lot makes you stick much closer to the people that are moving with you and that are the only constants in your life. Home or coming home always meant going back to my parents' house and back to my brothers and sisters, even though they might have moved somewhere else in the meantime. I still haven't found 'my own' home. So far, I've always regarded all the places I've lived in as transitional places, never as permanent places. I guess in the future, I could only call something my own home, if I'd share it with my significant other but then again, it'd be the person that would define that home and not the location! Don't know if I'm kaing sense.....
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Oct 19, 2007 17:25:42 GMT -5
Post by thesa on Oct 19, 2007 17:25:42 GMT -5
With 'home' I actually did not mean a house or something ...eh... stationary ...I rather meant the feeling of being home aka being in a place or rather being with people to where and whom one truly belongs. The house or location itself is actually not important to me, it's the people that make a home a home. That's why I said that home for me equals family. And the significant other thing: I can't really say now, that's just what I would like it to be ;-)
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Oct 27, 2007 11:42:15 GMT -5
Post by avax on Oct 27, 2007 11:42:15 GMT -5
SAM, That is a long journey. Best wishes with all.
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I was thinking about this topic for awhile actually which is why I've refrained from posting here. The reason I introduced people into the discussion is because the likelihood of any of us living in a hermitage or in isolation is close to none. I started thinking of home regarding anyone with whom we feel comfortable with but it didn't seem right as people come and go. Then if it were family, do not family members come and go also? Where is home if they all die off? And why should the concept of home be dependant on anything transient?
Is 'home' transient anyway. I notice some people possess a grace about them wherever they are but underneath the exterior is a longing for the familiar. Most of the time when we move and the concept of 'home' changes, there seems to not only have been a catalyst (if not only out of boredom from Point A) but also a driving force or motivation or reason to move - be it for work or immigration and "better opportunities", or out of sheer survival.
Funny that the human mind relies on memories in the concept of home, and it is carried with us wherever we go. That someone recognizes "home" is also a recognition of some dependency, of attachment or familiarity. And for someone who rejects attachments, is "home" held in contempt?
I also wonder if it is a conscious decision.
'Home' - referring to a hypothetical place, by the way. and "Home" - referring to the concept. I had been making distinctions in my mind without realizing.
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Apr 7, 2008 14:46:01 GMT -5
Post by eimak on Apr 7, 2008 14:46:01 GMT -5
I pretty much moved around half my life, but yeah I consider my home to be in our house in the Philippines, I never actually lived there for more than 6 months, but I consider it home because I'm always there when we have vacations and I have my family and close friends there.. it's the only place I can call home coz it's where I feel most comfortable and yea, I grew up there without actually living there.. i dunoo if that made much sense..
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Apr 23, 2010 8:37:43 GMT -5
Post by Ganbare! on Apr 23, 2010 8:37:43 GMT -5
I'm curious.. Has anyone found "home" in ..a person? For me, home actually = family I've never lived longer than 4 years in any place and moving aroung a lot makes you stick much closer to the people that are moving with you and that are the only constants in your life. Home or coming home always meant going back to my parents' house and back to my brothers and sisters, even though they might have moved somewhere else in the meantime I never stayed in the same city very long either. Once in a while I like to recall about the places I've been, things I did, friends/acquaintances I met there. The only thing that has remained constant outside of my family was culture. I don't have a material home, just my mother, sister and a close bond with an universe of mental references. I have a devouring passion for art and entertainment, the only things I could really carry with me were ideas, sounds, images so I think I subconsciouly chose to spend more time on those instead of material things or relationships that I know will eventually be abandoned as soon as I move again. I thought it a little was crazy until I read the Jews are believed to have specialised in academia because knowledge was the only thing they could carry with them during millenia of persecution and migration, it probably explains why this people has such a disproportionate intellectual contribution considering its small population.
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Apr 23, 2010 19:10:46 GMT -5
Post by betahat on Apr 23, 2010 19:10:46 GMT -5
^I thought it a little was crazy until I read the Jews are believed to have specialised in academia because knowledge was the only thing they could carry with them during millenia of persecution and migration
I'm not sure that's quite right. There is certainly a tradition of scholarship and literacy that is rooted in the study of the Torah - Judaism avoided the tendency by Christianity for so many years to leave the reading of holy texts to specialists, relegating the masses to illiteracy. But specialization in academia? That seems to be mostly concentrated among Ashkenazi jews, and particularly those from Germany and Western Europe. Where did you read that?
^I never stayed in the same city very long either. Once in a while I like to recall about the places I've been, things I did, friends/acquaintances I met there. The only thing that has remained constant outside of my family was culture. I don't have a material home, just my mother, sister and a close bond with an universe of mental references.
I have a devouring passion for art and entertainment, the only things I could really carry with me were ideas, sounds, images so I think I subconsciouly chose to spend more time on those instead of material things or relationships that I know will eventually be abandoned as soon as I move again.
Have you seen Up in the Air? What's in your backpack?
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May 12, 2010 21:09:44 GMT -5
Post by Ganbare! on May 12, 2010 21:09:44 GMT -5
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May 16, 2010 15:42:56 GMT -5
Post by Ganbare! on May 16, 2010 15:42:56 GMT -5
It's a strange feeling not to have a place you can really call home, you know places, people but they don't feel like it. Is there such thing as a place anyone can truly call home in our fast-paced, fleeting world?
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