This weekend my roommate is taking me "home" to Pennsylvania for the weekend. I asked her two questions that i thought would help me find a place to call home for the next 4 years that i'm here. (yes i am still fearful of being "homeless" for four years) one was what makes her "home" a home? she answered as i thought she would, "my family is there" that traditional answer for everyone. my next question was what i was really hinting at with the first, i asked her where my home was in america. i seemed to have her stumped for a moment. she looked at me and then simply answered "at home with me, its your temporary home". I was intrigued! A temporary home? does one even exist? and if it did, why hadnt i found one yet? i wanted to make sure my roommate wasnt crazy so i asked my other friends the same question. to my surprise they all answered with their respective homes. apparently i have three different homes that i didnt even know about!
But before i accept these relatively unknown places as my "home" i have to wonder if i really can truely adopt them as my home? MY family isnt there, im not going to walk in the door and have my cat Paddington run towards me, im not going to find my bed there, in my room with my furniture. so what is it that i can find in my friend's homes that will allow me to have a home? can i really have a "temporary home", more than that, can i really have 3?
Actually, when you buy your first home, you might be the only one living in it. Does that mean because you family is not living with you, it is not your home. A home can take many different forms.
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