What makes home "home"?
This is close to a question from the previous Questions, Answered. Perhaps this is a cop-out, but I think my answer still holds:
"Home is where you are comfortable. In that sense, you may have many "homes", impermanent and unstationary by time, place, people, context and expectations. Should there only be one "home", that represents eternal comfort and belonging?
In my case, where I "grew up", where I am living, where I consider myself from, where my family is, and even that special place, are all different and endlessly changing. I carry my home, my comfort, my grace deep inside, ready to spread it around any physical place that I may reside."
What makes home "home" is not the place; a physical place merely holds the cues to past feelings and memories, impressions of the present and dreams for the future.
What makes home "home" is not people; people change, relationships morph, expectations and roles come and go.
We often think of home as a retreat, a refuge, a castle with a moat blocking out the world.
But why do we need a place to create a sense of comfort, belonging and safety?
But it's not the place; what makes home "home" is you.