What does home mean? Is it only one location, your house in the suburbs, or is it wherever you are? I guess that's dependant on many factors and is quite subjective although in my mind I don't believe home is that one single location, your house in the cul-de-sac, neatly trimmed grass and associated mortgage.
I've travelled all over the world and coming back to my home country is always a happy occasion; Things are familiar, there's no language barriers and my life resumes it's, quite predictable and controlled, course. However if I never returned to that house in the suburbs and my country of birth I'd still be somewhere right? And wouldn't it make sense that that location would then be home? I think so.
I've always held to the belief that I'm home when I close the door behind me, no matter where that door happens to be. It could be in a hotel room, a tent, my own property or in some distant land overlooking a beautiful blue ocean...You see, for me home is where my partner and I are...And the physical location really has little bearing on whether I call it home or not.
Home isn't a place for me...It's a state of being, a feeling; Comfort, safety, the company of my partner, the ability to lock the world out...That's where home is and it could be in the wilderness, the city or at any other physical location.
Images: Clovelly, Devon England.
