I like this writing. Home is a place for the body and soul to rest, release fatigue, gather strength, share love, create plans, remember stories, even as a strength to maintain comfort and self-security.
Home can be an abstract concept. I think home is where we feel safe, secure, and free to be ourselves. Old memories, smells, and sights can trigger nostalgic feelings of 'home', but is there a difference between home and nostalgia? I get nostalgia for the places I've once called home, but they don't always feel exactly like home anymore. My hometown still evokes a hominess and nostalgia for my upbringing, but it is not a place where I fit in anymore by any means; it's no longer a place I feel my current self, but a place I feel more of my former self. Since we change so much, perhaps we have many homes for all of our previous versions, and maybe that's ok. Or perhaps we confuse nostalgia for home and home does not need to be tied to a geographic location.
Hi Jonathan! I love your idea of "many homes for many selves", and it's true in my case, my Chicago self and Istanbul self two very different people. But as you noted, there is something deeper when geographic ties fade, that safety and freedom to be yourself isn’t bound to a place, but to the version of you that lives there. That’s why I ended on the idea that home is ultimately self, a compass rather than a pin on a map. Thank you for this rich addition to the conversation, it’s exactly what I’d hoped to convey with this essay. :)
Kesinlikle haklısın annecim. Aile, rahatlık, güven ve mutluluk, bir yeri ev gibi hissettiren şeyin özü. Ama yinede acaba ev, bu duyguların nerede olduğundan çok, onları içimizde taşıma yeteneğimizle mi ilgili diye sormadan edemiyorum. :)
I like this writing. Home is a place for the body and soul to rest, release fatigue, gather strength, share love, create plans, remember stories, even as a strength to maintain comfort and self-security.
Home can be an abstract concept. I think home is where we feel safe, secure, and free to be ourselves. Old memories, smells, and sights can trigger nostalgic feelings of 'home', but is there a difference between home and nostalgia? I get nostalgia for the places I've once called home, but they don't always feel exactly like home anymore. My hometown still evokes a hominess and nostalgia for my upbringing, but it is not a place where I fit in anymore by any means; it's no longer a place I feel my current self, but a place I feel more of my former self. Since we change so much, perhaps we have many homes for all of our previous versions, and maybe that's ok. Or perhaps we confuse nostalgia for home and home does not need to be tied to a geographic location.
Hi Jonathan! I love your idea of "many homes for many selves", and it's true in my case, my Chicago self and Istanbul self two very different people. But as you noted, there is something deeper when geographic ties fade, that safety and freedom to be yourself isn’t bound to a place, but to the version of you that lives there. That’s why I ended on the idea that home is ultimately self, a compass rather than a pin on a map. Thank you for this rich addition to the conversation, it’s exactly what I’d hoped to convey with this essay. :)
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Kesinlikle haklısın annecim. Aile, rahatlık, güven ve mutluluk, bir yeri ev gibi hissettiren şeyin özü. Ama yinede acaba ev, bu duyguların nerede olduğundan çok, onları içimizde taşıma yeteneğimizle mi ilgili diye sormadan edemiyorum. :)
thanks for reading! :)