The whole thing about buying a property brought me to think about where home is...
Lots of TV programmes in the UK are on the subject of buying your home, refurbishing your home, relocating your home, doing gardening in your home, finding cash in the attic of your home, and so on.
As far I understand, this way of conceiving of home is also about making sure your home has some value, and keeping the value of the home. In other countries things are different.
Those of us who have settled down here in the UK from abroad continuously compare our ideas with other people's. We think there is an element of 'passion' or 'feeling' which should be there, even at the expense of the financial value. Maybe we are all the same feeling, we live it differently (or we like to think that way).
Just now watched a programme on someone thinking of relocating home from Spain to the UK. It was a British couple with family ties and cravings here. After visiting both locations, thinking about what was best in terms of jobs, social relations, and general satisfaction, they decided to...Stay in Spain.
It was going to be a big sacrifice, it seemed, even in financial terms. After being away for a long time, they felt their prospects looked better there in Spain. When they communicated their decision to a crowd of about 30 relatives and friends in Sheffield (UK), they were booed. But some of them understood.
We grow as people in other places from where we were born. We become someone else, and become focused in certain things and relationships. These things and relationships are meaningful to us and probably to no one else. And this does not seem to depend on nationality.
We all seem to develop a passion for where home is and should be. But life is not easy in this regard. Home could be different homes.
And I bet there is something very deep in ourselves that keeps us more in one place than another.
"You are mistaken," the little girl replied, "I do have a home I just don't have a house to put it into." (http://www.aish.com/f/rf/48925647.html, accessed today).
1 comment:
booooooooooooh
:P
Buying a house isn't the same as getting a home. In the UK you buy a "property" with a "value" which you expect will grow in time. People worry about the price and how they are going to sell it. In other countries people buy houses hoping they will live there for many years and that it will become their home. They are not worried about the house's value in 10 years because they are not planning to sell, maybe never.
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