How you feel when you come home after a busy day at office? You sit and take a deep relaxing breathe, isn’t it. Home is where we feel relaxed, be ourselves, we are free to do what we feel to do. We enjoy quality time with family. We laugh, share day’s activity, plan for future, plan a vacation. Home is the most important part of our life. Some people are blessed to have their own home, big or small, others may live at a rented home. We feel safe when we are at home.

Homes protect us from severe weather conditions like thunderstorm, extreme hot or cold weather. We should thank God for the blessings we have in life and always be happy that we have roof on our head. Different cities have different price for same measurement of home. It all depends upon the location of a home, facilities near home, construction and measurement. Each and every home has its own story to tell. We make childhood memories in a home which we remember throughout our life.

We cook food, enjoy home cooked food, decorate it the way we like. It’s a whole world for a family. The pandemic outbreak also make us realise how being at home was the key to fight against the disease. People have spend money on home appliances in last two years as all were stuck at their homes and were trying new recipes daily. More people are buying homes or wish to buy home in future. It doesn’t matter how big the home is, but what matter is how happy a home is. Each and every moment spend at home counts. Travelling is what I enjoy the most and yes we make memories when we visit a new place. But home is where we come back and relax.

We celebrate festivals at home. Home is a place where we are real, being ourself. We pray, live together, share our joy and sadness with family. Every home has its own vibes. Presence of each and every family member of a home makes it unique. Strong family values makes a person fight with all the ups and downs which comes in front of him/her in the journey called life.

Each and everyone of us must have listen to the stories of our grand parents, we not only listen but learn from their stories, how they lived their lives. Every story is unique sometimes we relate to them sometimes they are totally different from how we live. Whenever at home we watch different series on T.V or OTT platforms some makes us relate to them, others open our eyes and makes us aware of things we haven’t heard of.

After living for years in a home we get attached to it. People who build, decorate their homes with heart and soul, each and every corner reflect their taste their choices. When they thought of selling old house for new one it makes them emotional. At home we do have different opinions, we fight, we quarrel. Difference of opinion makes us know others perspective of a particular thing. But at the end, in times of crisis we stand together and that is the beauty of a family relation and bonding.

Each and every door in a house opens a new world, it bring you to your child’s room, to living area, to kitchen, to bathroom, to bedroom, to balcony. Plants in a home makes it more lively. People take help of interior designer, vastu experts, feng shui experts and make amendments according to their advice.

‘A House is made of bricks and stones, a home is made of love alone‘.

Ramneet Kaur