Comments on: Home

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:55:35 +0000

I used to feel where I lived which was in Illinois was my home. I thought I felt connected, I belonged there. But we moved to a little town in California. I met the greatest friends of my life and every time I say home, I mean there. I learned to accept change, it got me to where I am today. My friend Matthew reminded me of that. But, I still don't feel as connected. There seems to be something there that I need to seek or let it find me. It's a strong. I want to thank you for these Rants, it really opens my mind to things I have pushed I he back of my head. I've found myself coming here more often.

By: laura

laura — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:19:18 +0000

I really get what your saying..I'm one of the lucky ones I have found my home. your 100% correct in that its not always a house etc.. for me its the road. For 3 generations befor me my family traveled with the circus and carnival..My mother put me in a private school and I never had that feeling of being home until I graduated and hit the road..I'm still on the road..As long as I have my kids and my husband and the open road I am home.

Catch ya down the quay!
~Traveller~

By: Norman Art

Norman Art — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:44:53 +0000

The concept of home is what you want it to be. Throughout the entire "rant," you say a home is where you are most comfortable and feel safest at.

I find this line compromising to your message of "home is a feeling":

"But in our materialistic society, we forget the value of a home. We build houses and mansions, mistaking them to be homes"

What if those with mansions and castles decide they feel safe and loved with that dwelling? It is obviously their home. Or if some individual builds a place and feels it is his place? You can make a home, and i don't belive it is any less authentic than "finding" one.

Also:

"That's why we build houses, not homes. That's why so many people, though happy in every other way, are still searching for that feeling of home"

I also feel that it isn't the materialistc sence of society as much as it is the fall of the Maternal Family, as in materialism isn't the focus, I think the feeling of home has alot to do with how you feel and the safety and loveingness of a family.

Sorry the generalization of Mansion builders finding and empty shell of their home and materialism, whats the deal? with that? i mean really can I e-mail the writer ro something. Those concepts sort of fustrate me.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:59:58 +0000

i love the way u describe home for i hav not yet found my home but i hope to very soon

By: Black_Soul

Black_Soul — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:40:31 +0000

this is awesome. and very true

By: Raven Nocturne

Raven Nocturne — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:01:27 +0000

This rant stirs a deep longing in my soul to find a place to call my own; I'm eighteen now and I'm getting the urge more and more to leave the nest, so to speak, and find a place to call my own, I feel that the place I now call home isn't really my "home". I hope someday I'll find that "home" you speak of. I don't know when I'll find "home", but I know it's out there for me, somewhere.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:28:50 +0000

This is all very true.

By: Celia

Celia — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 05:53:39 +0000

It's amazing how true this is. I live in South Carolina, but Georgia will always be my home, because up to about five months ago i lived in the same house, in the same town, in the middle of no where. But despite how pathitic the town and all the memorys i wish i didn't have that are connected to it, it's the only place that i have ever really belonged and i miss it terrably. Anyway, great work you hit the nail right on the head.

~Celia

By: Christina

Christina — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 05:39:24 +0000

Very true … I myself am still trying to find this place called home.