Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Yesterday I moved back home. The place that has always been and will always be a place that I find peace. I knew the move would go seamlessly, I have great friends that helped and amazing parents that helped me get all my stuff into what seemed like a large room yesterday morning. I think I have it pretty nice here. My mom made a delicious dinner last night and they recently remodeled my bathroom and I think it was the best shower I've ever taken. 

We all reach an age life where we crave independence. We went to go out on our own and blaze our path. We get this idea in our head that moving back home with Mom and Dad after college is some kind of failure. But for me, it's giving me the opportunity to enjoy the things I missed most about home. Going for walks with my mom in the evening, going to Bonkeys, going to the NCR trail and the sound of my Dad on the tractor. Honestly, while this move is hard because I miss my sister and our little apartment, I am content and enjoying being home. I start my new job in one week and plan on enjoying this week. I get to go with my parents and little cousin to the zoo on Friday and the rest of my week will be spent just enjoying living in the country again. 

Home. This word means so many different things to so many people. Last year, in my traveling writing class we listened to Pico Iyer deliver a Ted Talk, called "Where is Home?" In his talk, he addressed how home isn't in one location for him. He addresses how home is where your heart is. So I feel like no matter where I go in life, this is where I will call home. The place I was raised and the place that I will always come back to for a sense of tranquility in this crazy world. However,  there are pieces of home in each place I have lived and where the people I love live. My grandmothers house is home, my aunt house, my cousin house, my boyfriends house, my sisters house... all these places contain pieces of home to me. 

Just like homes, we as humans are always under construction and in need of improvement. We are perfectly imperfect beings that need shelter and comfort in order to find reverence, peace and sense of home.