Moriah Standberry

A House Is not a Home

There are many people in this world who say that the place they eat, sleep, and dream is there home. But are they truly defining the word home? Or are they mistaking it for house. Although house and home come across to have the same meaning, the definition is beyond different.When building the foundation of a house many believe that it will not become a home until the builders or family moves in. There completely and utterly wrong. That house will never become a home until it develops love, comfort, and memories. Without these three things the word home loses its essence. As Luther Vandross says “a room is still a room even when there’s nothing there but gloom”. He could not have spoken that any clearer, it merely states that with obscurity and without happiness it has no meaning, and it remains “a” room just as it is called. No one actually asks there self if there house has yet become there home. Is there house where they share love with someone, develop compassion, and has the feeling of true comfort. In reality none of us do, however we should know whether our house has exceeded the meaning of a home. Our level of security should go beyond our expectance.Many people are homeless in a state of being without a home but having a house. Although a number of people do not understand the difference and cannot separate the significance, they are experiencing either a house or a home and until they experience the other the meanings will have no difference