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 Home is Where The Heart is

Often times I have heard it said home is where you make it. As much as this statement is true, I would also like to believe that sometimes Home is where the heart is, where your loved ones are, where you feel a sense of belonging. You may live in a town or city for years and never feel like you are home. And there are those who move to a new place and feel at home from day one. 

There are those who've never felt a sense of belonging in their homes of origin, be in a house, town, city or country, this group of people may likely feel at home  elsewhere. But for those whose home roots are deeply ingrained in their hearts, they may find it somewhat or extremely difficult to make a new place their home. 

I heard someone say that she is very adaptive and hence she was able to make a new country her home and she loves it. That too can be a reason for belonging to a new place and feeling like you are home. 

Adaptive or not, find out what works for you early-on in life. If you have never experienced living in different places, try it out and then decide what works for you. Just because you feel at home where you are at now, it doesn't mean you won't feel the same somewhere else. Give yourself a chance to explore.

When I was a teenager, I lived in two cities and they both became my home. When I was in my twenties, I lived in two countries and they both equally became my home. And now in my thirties I have found myself living in two countries and have called both my home but with slight favoritism to one over the other which sometimes make me homesick. That's because, so much about me, my circumstances and my mindset has changed since my twenties and somehow the idea of being home is more than what I used to believe or think.

Love,

MamaTembo Safari