What is home? Where is it? Is home where you are living? Is it where your family is?
These are questions that I had never thought about before coming to Trinity University since I had only known one home. The house I grew up in with my parents and sisters around me. The place where my friends would hang out with me and just talk for hours without worries. The place I would always go to and have my own room in. However, now I am no longer with my family, I am hours away from home on a plane and so now what? I do not consider myself homeless, so what is really a home?
Now that I have had the time to think about it I really do think I have found what a home means to me. It is not a location a home is a feeling. The feeling that it is your place. Even when going on vacations with my family I always felt at home, but usually I was not even close of my home. The reason why I felt at home was because I felt like I belonged with my family in wherever we were at that point in our vacations. That is what a home means to me, being surrounded by those who want you there, those who care for you, and those who make feel like you belong.
My family is not close to Trinity though so can I say that I am at home? Actually I can. In the short time that I have been here at Trinity I have already began to feel at home. Those friends that I have been making in the way, that call you to go have lunch with them, that take you out partying, those that I can laugh for hours without end, or talk about the differences in our life before coming here, those are becoming my Trinity family. They have helped in making my dorm more of a home than a hotel room for the next 4 years of my life. So now I am creating my new home. It is a place where I feel welcomed and that will help me not miss out my other home, the one I left behind.
The one thing I really know is that you never lose a home. You can many homes and feel welcomed with different people. Your family and your friends are your home no matter where you are. If you have someone near you then you will feel at home.
I am really starting to feel at home at Trinity.
