Have you ever imagined yourself living without a house? Most of us would prefer to live in a luxurious house with everything inside: as soft as a cotton sofa, well-polished wares, functioning airconditioning units, cool-breezed electricfans, huge bedroom, colored textiles, organized shelves, and the like. We feel so secured because we have a house to go to at the end of the day. Have you ever thought that some people do not have what they call a “house”? Defined in The New Oxford Dictionary of English, a house is a building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of people and consists of ground floor and one or more upper storeys. This definition sometimes violates the so-called house others have. A house for those near the sea, bridges or crowded areas are just like puzzled and mixed up light materials such as wood, scraps, unused vehicle wheels, etc. Even though they live in such a house, they have a “home”. It’s a pity that most of us judge people living in the squatters’ area. We judge them because of their dirty physical environment and smelly surrounding. However we see them in their present situation, there is still something that makes them keep on living. That possibly is their “home”. A home is not a building, a thing and absolutely not an abstract. A home is simply defined the “magnet that keeps pulling you wherever your route is.” At the end of the day,  you are excited to “go home” because your “family” is waiting for you. In the middle of distress and pressure, you think of your own home, not of your own house, unless your house is on fire or at the middle of drowning. That is a home. For those we think they do not have a home because they do not have a house, they are sometimes called as blessed. What’s the worth of a big house if there’s no one living inside. But for them, even though their houses are not strongly built, they live as a family and  eat and breathe as a family. No matter how big or small our houses are, we must always think that we must have a home to consider every day of our lives.

 Have you ever imagined yourself living without a house?

Most of us would prefer to live in a luxurious house with everything inside: as soft as a cotton sofa, well-polished wares, functioning airconditioning units, cool-breezed electricfans, huge bedroom, colored textiles, organized shelves, and the like. We feel so secured because we have a house to go to at the end of the day.

Have you ever thought that some people do not have what they call a “house”?

Defined in The New Oxford Dictionary of English, a house is a building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of people and consists of ground floor and one or more upper storeys. This definition sometimes violates the so-called house others have. A house for those near the sea, bridges or crowded areas are just like puzzled and mixed up light materials such as wood, scraps, unused vehicle wheels, etc. Even though they live in such a house, they have a “home”.

It’s a pity that most of us judge people living in the squatters’ area. We judge them because of their dirty physical environment and smelly surrounding. However we see them in their present situation, there is still something that makes them keep on living. That possibly is their “home”.

A home is not a building, a thing and absolutely not an abstract. A home is simply defined the “magnet that keeps pulling you wherever your route is.” At the end of the day,  you are excited to “go home” because your “family” is waiting for you. In the middle of distress and pressure, you think of your own home, not of your own house, unless your house is on fire or at the middle of drowning. That is a home.

For those we think they do not have a home because they do not have a house, they are sometimes called as blessed. What’s the worth of a big house if there’s no one living inside. But for them, even though their houses are not strongly built, they live as a family and  eat and breathe as a family.

No matter how big or small our houses are, we must always think that we must have a home to consider every day of our lives.

  • July 25
  • , 2010