What makes home

You can cuddle, you can yell, you can work on something inspirational, you can break something, or just plain break down. Home is where your heart is. Home is where you are you, magnified. Or normalized. Where the pressures of societal politeness are tossed away. Raw, is the word that comes to mind. Home has no filter.

Home has every ounce of warmth the word implies. For a discussion of the topic, see the Forum:What makes a place seem more like home? Home Wiki Explore. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

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This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Fun facts for kids Non-chocolate advent calendars Royal news. Home Wellbeing Wellbeing news. Credit: Getty. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. And most tyrannically of all, they are mirrors.

They are tireless, merciless reflections of our best and worst impulses. Unlike the chaos and unsightliness of the outside world, which can easily be construed as hardly our responsibility, the scene under our roofs is of our own making.

The careless sides of ourselves—the clutter, the dust, that kitchen drawer jammed with uncategorizable detritus that plagues every household—are as much a part of us as the curated side. Our houses are not just showplaces but hiding places. Our homes, on the other hand, are glorious, maddening no-places. They are what we spend our lives searching for or running away from or both.

They are the stuff of dreams, the extra rooms that vanish upon waking, the invisible possibilities we tamp down without even knowing it. They are the architecture of the unconscious mind—which is a physically uninhabitable space. Thank goodness there are people out there building houses. Used with permission of University of Texas Press.

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