The home, a long debated question of phiolophers and sociologists, Aristophanes said in 300 BC, “A man's homeland is wherever he prospers”. Does this mean that man home is where he makes a good living? As George Moore would say, “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it”. This goes along with Aristophanes philosophy of home. But what is home? Is it the home structure itself the house, the kitchen, one’s bedroom? Or is one’s home the family, the pets, the neighbors, or the coffee shop on the corner? For Lois McMaster Bujold, “it is the people not the place which is home.” The definition of home is the Home is a place where a person lives, perhaps spends much of the time, or where a person is comfortable to be. While a house or other residential dwelling is often referred to as a home, the concept of "home" is broader than a physical dwelling. Home is often a place of refuge and safety, where worldly cares fade, with things and people one loves becoming the focus. It can be the place of one's birth, where you grew up, or maybe your first apartment or house.
As college students most of us stepping into the real world for the first time without our mom or dad to hold our hands, and for many of us leaving home behind. But are we leaving home behind; or we just making a new home a place it hang our hat? As Tom Wolfe said, "You can't go home again." Many of us can not go home until Thanksgiving or even Christmas. Do many of us want to go home, or is this all part of Campbell’s theory of a hero we will all come back bearing gifts. John Howard Payne said it the best, “Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.” Even though we many travel the world it always feels good to come back home even just for a glace to rekindle ones’ inner sprit.