Where is my home? I have called my parents house home for as long as I can remember but now I have another living space that I have started calling home: my dorm room. I do live there, but it doesn’t have nearly as many of the qualities my parent’s house has, so how is it a home as well? I have heard people say that they have “made their house their home” after they have lived in it for a while, but I don’t like considering my dorm home because it is not what I would want in a home.
What makes people accept a living space as a home? Why can some people call the dorm “home,” when it makes me flinch to call my dorm home? I have called it home, if only because I live there and I wish so much that I could consider it home.
Does a home need to be an actual house? Are there certain elements that distinguish a house from a home? Because according to my thesaurus, the two are synonymous.
Why do I have such a problem considering my dorm my home? Is it because my home has my loved ones in it, my dog, my bed, my past?
Most people like having a place where they “belong”, and I’m no exception to that generalization. But can one person have multiple homes or places they belong? Is that possible: to feel you belong in more than one place? Because if it is, then I have a home and a temporary (if lacking) home.
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