To Pranay Oscar Lakra, who has such an amazing personality.
Happy birthday, in advance.
We’ve all been taught about the differences between a house and a home. A home has people, whereas a house does not. I remember I had a poem about it in eighth grade.
A home is the way you eat dinner together every night with your family, watching TV and laughing together. A home is the way your bedroom door creaks when you open it. A home is the way your bathroom door won’t quite close completely. A home is your messy room, your overflowing desk drawer. It’s your cluttered closet, and the way you just shove your clothes inside and quickly close it before they can all come falling down.
It’s the pieces of dust that are settled in the corners. It’s the ants that come in search of food. The way the crows come sit near the window when you’re eating, in hopes that you will feed them. The way the stray dogs that live near your house wag their tails and lick you as soon as you come out the door.
A home is the way the music keeps blaring out the speakers all day long, because your mom can’t work without it. A home is all the fights and arguments, and the making-ups after. It’s the smells wafting from the kitchen as your mom cooks.
A home is the way you try to be as quiet as possible at night, because your family’s sleeping. It’s fighting for the TV remote with your dad. Home is knowing that, no matter how far you go, you always have a place to come back to.
Home is comfort. Home is joy. Home is love. And, sometimes, home is a person.
-R
Home is where the heart is.. beautiful post ❤❤
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Yeah. 🙂 Thank you so much. :*
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Hugs ❤
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Aw, hugs. ❤ ❤
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Oh, come… on…. !!! Gah!! Houses have people too.. even if they are all alone.. and the rest of the zombies don’t catch on to that.. sometimes in broken, dystopian worlds and families.. there are still people who build their own world… and then it becomes a home.. even without the rest of the people participating..
(Oh sheesh, today is contrarian day for me, I suppose.. happily zooming and blazing all over the internet and blogosphere writing contrary comments, hahaha.. ok, wait till the serotonin settles down, I shall come back and apologize for my cynical comment.. haha.. But you know what? Nicely written).
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I have a feeling you were high when you wrote this. xD
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hmm, you think so? ok…
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Oh my god, I didn’t mean to offend you! :O I’m so sorry!
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No, that is quite alright.. like I said, sometimes the serotonin is in overdrive and I get too gung-ho and brash. It is nice to land softly and back on earth 🙂 Take care.. don’t worry about it..
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Okay. 🙂 Happens to me, too. Hahah!
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🙂 No worries..
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Yes, home can be just a person too. Beautifully written!
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Thank you, Uday. 😀
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Thanx sweetheart for dedication xoxoxo :*
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Welcome, babe. :* Happy birthday! 😀
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Wow. This is amazing. Thanks for sharing it! ❤
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Thank you. ❤ :*
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Have you written it, or is this the poem from your 8th grade?
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I wrote this. 🙂 I don’t even remember the poem. I just remember my teacher teaching it. 🙂
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You wrote it? 😮
Wow, the writing is so good that I thought someone much older and experience has written it. Kudos girl! Loved it!
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Aw, thank you so much, S! ❤
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This reminded me of a very beautiful song called ‘Home’ by Gabrielle Aplin.Do listen to it! 🙂
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Sure, I will. 🙂 Have you listened to ‘home’ by Michael Buble? (I think that’s his name. xD)
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I’ll do that now 🙂
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It’s a beautiful song! ^_^
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Told ya! 😀
She’s my favorite singer.And the best part is that she writes all her songs,so she’s truly a very talented writer and artist!And she’s born on the same day as me 😀
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That makes you happy, doesn’t it? 😀 That she was born on the same day.
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yes:D It kinda reminds me that people my age are really working hard and so should I.
Inspires me to run behind my passions!
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Oh, well. Don’t beat yourself up over it. Just keep on writing well. 😀 Too philosophical? Hehe.
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hahah!It’s just inspirational 😀
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