Home
/hōm/
Noun
- Home is the place where our family is.
- Home is a sense of belonging and safety
- Home is a physical space like a room or a building
- Home is the ties and bonds that we have to friends and lovers
- Home is the memories and emotions that connect us to the people we love that, in turn, root us to a place
Georgia’s sense of home is connected to sights and sounds relating to specific places that she identifies as her home. Home is the emotional connection that we have to places and to people that tell us that we belong.
Haipei’s sense of home is a connection to his comrades. Home does not need to be defined by family, it only needs to be a place that provides safety and comfort.
Emilia’s sense of home the physical ties created between our individual family members to the place that they live at. Home is knowing that no matter the distance, our family roots us to our place of origin and to ourselves.
Navid’s sense of home is warmth and comfort. Home is a place that provides shelter after a hard day and family is always there to welcome us back.
Nargiza’s sense of home is quiet, ordinary, and beautifully mundane. Home is the routine that we create with our loved ones that strengthen our sense of belonging.
Jade’s sense of home is rooted in the people she has shared her life, both those who are alive and those who are no longer here. Home changes. The people we share a home with, the place where home is, and the way we identify home all change. In the end, home is a symbol that guides us and roots us when we need it.
Home is our connection to nature, to a physical space, and to the people, we share our lives with. Home changes as we evolve, and it moves with us as we grow, but the ideations of home remain encapsulated by memories and stories about our relationships with other people. We remember home through our parents, our siblings, our grandparents, our friends, and our lovers because it is in the time that we spend with them that we feel like we belong. In that case, maybe home can be defined by the people we love and the people who love us.
The interesting thing about home, both in the ways that we each define them and in the ways we share them, is that home feels familiar. In reading the blogs that others have written about home, I feel a sense of familiarity. Our experiences of home are different, but the feelings that are shared about home are the same ones that can be found in my personal definition. Home is a very general term that we learn to understand throughout our lifetime. No matter how different our lives or our backgrounds might be, home is always something that we can unanimously relate to in one way or another.
Works Cited:
Brandoli, Emilia. “Assignment 2.2: Home.” ENGL 372: OH CANADA, 29 Jan. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/emiliabrandoli/2020/01/29/assignment-22-home/.
Greer, Jade. “Assignment 2.2 – Stories, People, and Nature: What Home Means to Me.” Canadian Literary Genres, 29 Jan. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/jadegreer/2020/01/29/assignment-2-2/.
Harris, Christopher. “Two Bicycles Near a House” Unsplash. 04 Jan. 2016, https://unsplash.com/photos/bJqeJxeyiJE.
Huang, Haipei. “Home.” ENGL 372 Blog, 28 Jan. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/haipeihuang/2020/01/28/home/.
Masaki, Georgia. “Assignment 2.1: Home.” OH CANADA, 27 Jan. 2020, https://blogs.ubc.ca/georgiamasaki/2020/01/27/assignment-2-1-home/.