Where is home?

Isn't it amazing how life always throws you curve balls just when you think you've got everything figured out? Isn't it just as amazing how life sometimes prepares you for things to come that you don't even know about yet?

One of these amazing moments happened to me not that long ago. Even before lockdown and world pandemic announcements, I wrote a poem about home and what that could look like to me. As it turned out, we moved house last week and when I stumbled upon the poem it was so fitting that I couldn't resist sharing it.

So without any further commentary, here it is

Photo by David T on Unsplash

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Home

They say home is where the heart is

But my heart is torn in two

I miss my old friends

But they have friends brand new

They say there is no place like home

But I cannot find it on a map

I’ve tried listening to advice

Even the ones on the inside of a bottle cap

They say where you are is home

But my head cannot agree

How do you destroy roots

That has already given life to a beautiful tree

So maybe home should not be a destination

Maybe home is not with me

Maybe home is more than one thing

Because home is with the people I choose it to be

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So without getting too nostalgic or emotional, home has so many meanings but to me, it will never be connected to a place or the objects we put inside it. Even though I take my hat off to my mom who stayed up till about 3 am every night/morning until this new house became our home, she is much more "home" to me than this house will ever be. I realised that my "home" will never be just one country either because I have come to love people in both places I have spent my life. And many of us feel this way, moving schools, moving areas or simply just being stripped of family visiting rights within this pandemic.

I will repeat it again, home is with the people I choose it to be! So who is your home? Who can you call or text right now to thank them for being that for you? Even if we are not able to see them right now, technology has provided an amazing shortcut. Don't wait! Text or call them NOW and thank them for being your home (then come back and tell me all about the amazing conversations, because a part of me likes to believe that these posts mean more to people than just a "quick read")

Where or who is your home?

Time to find home