Can ever really go home? Would you want to? Why? What if you were roused from your home? What if home was no longer there? What really is ‘home’?
After natural disasters, home becomes discussions about the ‘house’ and the state it may be in. The family may be disoriented and feel shockingly disconnected to the stability they had previously created.
Kids go off to college and talk about coming home. When you are a freshman at college, that is the last thing you want to do, go home. When you are finished with college and looking for a job, that is the best thing for you to do, go home. Home in this instance is a house where your family lives, a community where you grew up and a place on this earth where you feel welcomed and comfy warm. However, if your parents clean out all your personal items to boxes in the garage or if your parents divorce while you are in college, home takes on a whole new meaning. Home is a house that holds stuff and memories, good or bad. Perhaps it is time to start and create a ‘home’ of your own. A place that supports all the good things in life, all of life that you choose to experience and want to be a part of.
Another ‘home’ is the house and community that we become part of in life. It could be a place on the map where we grew up or a place that we later migrated to where we feel comforted. It could be the place we find work or a place where we can find others that support our ideas and morals. Or, it could be a place where we are learning about other things, hardship, loss, pain or any other difficulties life can bring. It is all about life, how we choose to be with it, live with it and hold it dearly to our heart and soul. How you live it is your American free will and it is for the taking every second of the day and night.
From stage left comes a cliff hanger, a natural disaster, a game changer, or a phantom of disruption to a phase of normal everyday life. Water, wind or fire can take the concept of home to a pile of rubble. Survivors rummage through the ashes to find something they claim is their ‘life’. Trying to put the pieces back together for a life they had. It is a necessary process and everyone needs to do it. It is what happens next that causes so much confusion and anger, ……..
Coming home after natural disasters is heart and soul crushing. It permeates all your senses. It tears at your root of self. It demands you feel, front and center. It yells in your head to pay attention. It sears at your eyes to hold back the water deluge in your tears. It can bring any man to their knees. It can stop even the strongest heart. It breaks families and lovers. It takes budgets to crumbs. It allows those who are ready, to go into the realm of heaven peacefully.
Is this what you are ready to take on? Can you really? Or are you very good at boxing up all your feelings and senses. Life for you is what you allow to happen and everything else you pretend does not touch you.
Home, not what it used to be. This is the point where a home becomes a house. It is critical, return home? or start anew? Ask the question. Memories and life are in you, not the stuff. Be safe. Please also check our other blogs for information: www.lifepockets.wordpress.com
