Home, for someone, is simple as a house, but for someone else, is more than a house, and sometimes it is not a house. Each life has a different thinking about the definition of “Home”.
“Where one lives or a residence” (Dictionary of the English Language, 2009). According to this definition, people may have two or more homes. When you go to work, spending eight hours in the office, may be more twelve hours in there, your office becomes a second home. You work there, you relax there, you have dinner, and you chat to your friends at your desk in your office. Sometimes, for some people, they even sleep there because of security situation. In the fact that home sometimes just “a place where you are comfortable and pleasure” (Collins English Dictionary, 2003). For example, street children have no house to come back, but they do have home. Their home may be under the bridges, on the boats along the channels, or in slums nearly a dump field. That are not a house, just a place that they feel comfortable to sleep, to retire after a hard working day and to sleep.
For some people, home is a thing that you can not replace and you always look forward. Home is a family. There are your parents, brothers, sisters, relatives, dogs, fishes, etc. Everything that you feel so familiar with. Especially, they will be the first people whom you want to share your feeling, your emotion about your job, life or you are the first person that they choose to share these things with. Home will help you to get back the balance in your life between love and money. In there, everyone will be available beside you to protect, support and go with you to get over difficulties.
Home is either the beginning of the love, new lives, or the root of the evils. Haggard, a composer, said that “home is where the kid grows up” in the song with the same name. Imaginarily, a child was born in a good family with full love from his parents and his brothers, sisters. He will become a good man with characteristics of kindness and tolerance. He will get married with a beautiful girl and have good children, a new life, with full of love like his parents. What if his parents are not good people, they are drunk, they fall in gamble and don’t care about his son. The son grows up and begins his life as their parents. He becomes social burden and may be an evil with the end in jail.
The definition of home is not the same when people think about it. But absolutely, everyone does have a home. They will live with it or find the other one; it depends on how they define what the home is.
