home-less

HOME is a place where you'll never ever forget.
HOME is a place where you'll keep it safe deep within your heart.
HOME is a place where you'll never replace it with anything else no matter what.

Home is a place where I find comfort and peace. When everything else in the world turns their backs against you, you know that the only place that you can lean on to is your home. Home would never betray you or hurt you. Its arms are always open for you. Its shoulder are always available for you to cry on to. Its smiles are always there for you if you ever need one.

Being a sole traveler from my home country, I need to find a place which has the most resemblance to my definition of home. As I stepped my foot at Mount Carmel, Illinois, it has been my first home ever in the states. Although it is a small town with just a population of 7000 residents, I found comfort in it. I cried, yelled, laughed, and expressed myself as much as I wanted to in my tiny little apartment.

Currently being squeezed inside a four-walled dorm room without any kitchen, living room, and bathroom, it is a struggle for me to try to call it a home or even a house. It is just a place for me to sleep. I felt that my freedom is limited now. It is not a place for me to find complacency. Now everything seems to fall apart in my life, and I don't even have a home to go back to.

I miss home.




Smile. Love. Persevere.