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Where or What is Home? - 6/4/2007 5:47:10 AM

JohnSteed1967

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When I was a child, I would tell my mom, "I want to go home"; Even though I was at home. Years later after my ex wife's sucicide attempts I told my shrink that that thought was entering my mind again but yet I had no desire to go back to South Carolina.

The Shrink told me that home was a concept of safety and security. That I was doing my best to latch on to that.

Now, three years after both my divorce and the sale of my childhood home. I have that thought entering my mind again, of "I want to go home". I don't have a home anymore with my ex wife. I don't have my childhood home. I have an apartment that I have done my best to make as much of a home as I can. But yet that nagging "I want to go home" is there again.

My shrink's safety and security answer dosen't really seem to answer this question, since I have money in the bank, I have a retirement fund, I have a solid job (Even though I hate manegment), What or where is home?

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RE: Where or What is Home? - 6/4/2007 5:51:11 AM

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The home you seek is that peace & security within.... that place will only be found when you embrace yourself & everything you are... unconditionally

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RE: Where or What is Home? - 6/4/2007 5:53:16 AM

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To me, safety and security isn't wrapped up in financial haves and havenots - it is the place you can be yourself - if you cannot feel free to be who you are without stigma or pressure then you are just not home.

Home is the place you can remain still and at peace.

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RE: Where or What is Home? - 6/4/2007 7:04:40 AM

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it took me a long time to know what "home" was. I found for me that home is a physical place where i can see open skies, mountains, clean air, and lots of birds, insects, and wildlife. I like the sunshine, cloudy days are depressing. I also think it's true that "home is where the heart is" no matter where the heart lives, inside yourself is where you have to make your home. kinda like a folk song...eh.

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RE: Where or What is Home? - 6/4/2007 7:16:24 AM

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To me home is where the people I love are.

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RE: Where or What is Home? - 6/4/2007 8:50:34 AM

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OMG OMG what a thread to wake up to!!

home is sunrise and a sunset. home is where you rest when you are weary. home is familliar faces and intersections. a feeling that "hey i belong here". home is that call at 2 am with news of glee or not news of glee.

home is letting the room be unkempt- painting swirls on the walls.

home is a state of mind. if u could dance like the pros do- when you dream do you jump to the clouds and examine your space?

home is your family history- it is the present the past and future all rolled into one.

home is trust. a refuch from the bitterness os the world.

is a shantee any less a home then a mansion on the hill?

thats for you to ponder.

home is where u dare to dream.

while it can be spacial- it has its own essense.

home is where you 1st built a treehouse. you may not be physically able to go there- but you can dance the night away there in your slumber.

For what it is worth my friend...I still have it partially right, as we cant know all- till our final breath.

I too suffer and enjoy this same plight.

Home is everything. and yet- hard to touch it. hard to define it.

Home sweet home- may you be there if only for this moment,,,,,,

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