The last couple of days have been very interesting, and slightly unusual, all starting with getting a train to somewhere I've never been before.
On thursday evening I caught a train down to Letchworth Garden City, a place I only ever heard of for the first time a few weeks ago. On arrival I met my mum waiting for me at the platform, who proceeded to drive us back to the new family home. As well as Letchworth being an entirely new place, the house was also one I'd never heard anything about and so was a complete surprise seeing, and visiting for the first time.
After a night of sleeping on the sofa, the following day was full of trip in a rental moving packing up furniture from a storage place and unloading it into the new house.
What's made the last few days quite strange is that although this new house is technically the new 'family house', my brother and I don't now have bedrooms, like we used to in our old house. I'm not in anyway complaining about this fact, because both my brother and I are at uni, we'll be renting our own places after uni and so we don't now need our own separate full time rooms. It's just a very odd feeling that's all.
Come tomorrow I'll be heading back to Sheffield, back to my uni home, which as of now I've lived in longer then our family house. Does that now make my uni house my home as I'm there longer, and this new house just a temporary house?
Not being cheesy, but what makes a house a home? How long you've lived there?
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The adventures you had in moving from one house to another is quite fascinating. Your question is really intriguing. Personally, a home is somewhere you can feel that your mind and heart is at peace. I've been renting an apartment ever since, and while I've made a lot of changes to cater to my preference, there's that feeling of security whenever I come home and rest after a long day of work.
ReplyDeleteVon Madison @Gold Team
I totally agree with you. The new place we moved into is also rented, and although people generally see rented places as more temporary homes, having been here for a few months now the house definitely feels more homely and as you said secure and welcoming when you come home at the end of the day.
DeleteJack Skinner @03jac