What is home?

This is where my roots are, but my home is you...

Would it be a comfortable home with ample structure, where needs are met and peace prevails? Would it be a place that inspires nostalgia in which a childhood was built and the roots are still present?

The concept of "home" diverges opinions because little is thought rationally about it and the idea that we most perceive in everyday life is the definition of home being the place where one lives. But, will it be so?

What do you have to say? What is your opinion? What is "home" to you?

The book "Socrates Café", by Christopher Phillips, brings a concept that goes beyond. It helped me broaden my vision and accept the idea that this is not a place where I find my greatest memories or where I live in the present. Perhaps, if that were the case, I would be fated to relate to the environment and objects present in my home, which would frustrate me due to the monology of an unrequited relationship.

Christopher tells, in his work, interesting debates. He met with people in a prearranged place and there several subjects were discussed and one day they discussed the meaning of the word "home". Several looks were placed at the table, but one specific caught my attention. Check it out below:

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"On the one occasion I went with my mother to the coal mining camp where she was born in West Virginia, I said to her:

- So this is your home.

She replied:

- This is where my roots are, but my home is you".

(PHILLIPS, 2001).

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Do you agree with him?

May your home be lived and not just inhabited.

Anderson Cruz.

Writer, therapist and graduate student in philosophy.