What the Word Home Means to You

What the Word Home Means to You

Home – noun

1. The place where you live.

2. The place where you where born or feel you belong.

I feel that the dictionary meaning of home is the same as my opinion

of the word. Home for me is where I feel without care and is where I

can live without fear. My home is in Bolden Colliery, South Shields in

that unique northeastern town of Newcastle in England.

For me it was very hard to establish where home was because my parents

are of different nationalities. My mother is English and my father is

Croatian. I chose England to be the place of my home. I chose this

because I was born there and because I also have a house there. Most

of my childhood memories are from my home in England too. I also think

that because I move around the world a lot my house is also my

country. When I am not home I don’t feel heart ache or miss home. I

think that this is because I have always been away from home, but I

know that I will go back for a holiday or to live there some day. So

why should I be sad?

At the present time I am residing in Dubai. Dubai is one of the seven

emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates or the U.A.E. Dubai has

a very hot and humid climate, this makes it feel like a paradise with

a vast array of exotic plants and palms lining the beaches and public

roads. Mix this with modernity and technology and you have a unique

city. Dubai contrasts greatly from the United Kingdom. Here we have

very low crime rates and even lower taxation. People are always moving

into or out of Dubai making it a very transient place. There are ways

in which I can say that I like Dubai and ways in which...

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place where one can roam around with out any secrets, whereas if I did

not have a home I would be very lonely, shy and insecure.

When I am away from home, I miss the routine that I go through

everyday, I miss the invisible warmth that my family emits. I love

coming back home and walking into that door to smell an aroma, which

has never changed. This scent confirms that I am home. It is not an

air freshener, but a mixture of smells that have gathered throught the

course of the day. For example cooking, smoke, flowers, deodorants.

Home for me is my life. If I did not have a home I would be lost. Not

knowing where to go when in need of those reassuring words or who to

fall back on when struggling in life. This proves to me how important

my home is, even when I argue with the people I lie with and love.