Why do so many say "I hope the journey leads you home...?" What is home? A person, place or thing? The term is loosely used to influence what others want for you. I am adamant that 'home' changes. Your heart and mind do not stay in one exact location for all the days on this Earth, it changes like the seasons for the souls who want more.
The Webster Dictionary meaning of home is as follows: the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. Permanently is the word I can argue till the death. Nothing is permanent--the term leaves no room for growth or expansion. Growth of the soul, mind and relationships cannot be permanent. Home is often referred to as the place where you grew up, the place you were taught about life and experienced many first alongside people you called family. Then we all grow up, become individuals and live by our own morals/values. Decision are then made on where 'home' lies.
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham
This writing isn't to propose the thought that home isn't where you were raised and have family, instead it's for the individuals who see more throughout the world and have the courage to find 'their home on this green Earth'. Family and loved ones can be influential on the decisions you make and places you go--but do they create your happiness or do you faulted to theirs?
Home is where the heart is--crazy to think that the heart can be in multiple places. So how can us as people be physically in multiple places at once? Impossible. So continue to follow your calling, heart and soul without influence of others and remember: home can be a season, person, place in time or thing.
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