What Home Means To Me

What Home Means To Me An Essay By Michael Yue A building with 4 walls, and a roof, what else can I say about a normal house. But a home is a place where you feel happy and safe, unlike a house where you can feel anyway. A house, and a home can be very different things, but people still call them the same, but today we will talk about how these things are different, and what a home really is. In a normal house, there is a couch, but in my home the couch is not just a couch. It’s where I slept on a cold freezing night, with not enough beds for everyone to share. In the morning, you can hear the sizzling of a pan, the typing of a computer, and a tired brother putting on clothes. You can see a bright shining sun, beaming light through a window as it reaches its destination on the floor. You can smell the cooking of lunch, which will be eaten in 4 hours. You can also feel the soft fluffy bed, as you get ready to start the day. Every home has a different daily routine, which makes it unique, and all those things make my home, my home. It might not be a mansion, and it might not have cost a billion, but I am happy in my house, which is also my home. A home should be safe, with happiness, and joy, not a lonely box, that feels dangerous, and scary. A home should be filled with laughter, and glee, not a place with screams of terror. Homes should be filled with love, and care, but a place with hate should not be fate, as everyone deserves a place to stay, where they can stop worrying about their floor, and roof. Of course a home might not always feel like home, it may be sad, or maybe angry, but with a little time it should be ready, for you to feel like you're in a home. A home might just be a standard house, but a standard house might not be a very good home. A home is unique, one just for you, but an eighth of Canadians will not have that feeling, so thank you Habitat Of Humanity, for helping the unfortunate people who have to deal with the very hard truth of living without a home. A home doesn’t have to be a billion dollar luxury, it just has to be a place you love. In fact in the whole world 1.6 billion people suffered from not having a home, and this was just 2022, where the global population was only 8.0 billion at the time. This means as of 2022 ⅕ of the world's population suffered from being homeless. Homes can be a normal, luxury, or any other kind of a place that you live in, as long as it feels like home, but that home may just not be a house. A home has objects that we feel, and connect with, like a backpack that you have a memory with. We all have our own daily routine, and maybe even a yearly one. When my mom starts making food, all I can do is wonder about what food is cooked, until I actually help her. My brother is watching videos, playing video games, or maybe even studying (a very rare chance). My dad is in his office, working. All these daily things make my family, and my home, my family and home. In a normal house there is a living room, but in my home the living room is the place where my family rarely ever watches television. In a house there’s a dinner table, but in my home there is a dinner table, with all the spills, food, or even just anything, from family meetings, to delicious food, I don’t think my dinner table is the same as someone else's. There are a lot of different objects in my home, and all of them have different memories, senses, and deeper meanings. Take my room for an example. It holds a lot of objects with deeper meanings. My swim bag is a memory of a 7 year old me, almost drowning in a pool, starting a so far lifelong journey, through a sport. Wherever I went to swim, I brought my swim bag with me. In conclusion, a home might just be a house, but it has a lot of things, with deeper meanings. A home is unique, and special, with daily routines, love, safety, care, laughter, and happiness. You can use your 5 senses every day, and experience the home that you live in.