A Place That Feels Safe: Forging Who You Are in Feelings of Home.
- An Audio Portrait on the Meaning of Home -
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Finding Home.
Is it a place? A space? A feeling? A person maybe?
Home. It's more than just a word. More than an empty definition taking up space when you scroll through "H" in your favorite dictionary. Home is more than a house. Or at least it can be if you take the time to unpack what home means to you. As a spatial and relational concept, defining home can mean exploring intimate complexities shaped by the individuality of your human experience.
To explore this concept, I spoke to one of my good friends about the meaning of home. Andrew, who now works in the elite world of the arts, is a recent Carleton University graduate who has called Ottawa home since moving here in 2016. In searching for the safety of home, Andrew says we must also define what is not home in order to forge who we are. And even if subconsciously, in the search for spaces and faces of love and security, you will gravitate towards truths about your identity that you might not have discovered yet.
In the following audio portrait, Andrew shares how the journey home is coterminous in finding not only the freedom to be, but the freedom to explore what could be and who you might be.
“Feeling safe enough to explore how you might be and who you might be instead of having to feel like you have to perform any kind of way.”
"We're all just walking each other home."