“Home is where our story begins…”
You know, there is a magic thing about home. It feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back, doesn’t it?
Did it happen to you that you have to leave the place you were born in different reasons-work, education, travelling, and so on. I guess, yes. Surely, in the beginning you think that you are the happiest and luckiest person having that opportunity to live abroad. But after a while you feel emptiness inside. You start to compare everything with your homeland-habits and traditions, cuisine, people, nature, sometimes get irritated why these or those things aren’t similar to your culture. Surely, you don’t pay much attention to such things, until the worst feeling of loneliness knocks at your door; you realize that you aren’t at home… You pack up your things, buy a ticket and depart! Have you noticed that your heart beats even faster when you see familiar places through the plane window? It’s not about your physical condition, no, it’s about love you feel towards your motherland/home just the way you feel when meeting your lover after a long time. After getting out of the plane, your first breath of the fresh air brings consciousness and calmness to your mind. You relax, dear, cause you are home!
You take the first walk around the places you used to pass by every day without noticing how beautiful they were. Now you admire and smile at those neighbors once you used to call grumpy and annoying. Even the old and dilapidated buildings seem to be great cultural heritages worth attention. The yummiest food: that healthy and delicious homemade food you have missed during the years of absence don’t leave you disappointed. You walk into the first cozy café and the host escorts you with a smile; you are delighted! Friends, oohh, sweet friends. How much you have missed them. They run a welcome party for you to remind that you are important for them. You feel loved and complete… You have found what you have been looking for such a long time.
All in all, home is not just a location or building, it’s a combination of feelings like happiness, comfort, serenity, calmness, love and satisfaction brought together to us in one single place which we call home, isn’t it?
