Looking for Home

When you don’t know what home is.

Nikola Grace Radley
3 min readMar 7, 2022
Photo by Mehdi Sepehri on Unsplash

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charles Dickens

Home.

Is it something physical or something mental?

Is it a place? A person? A feeling? A culture? Or a collection of moments?

Or a mixture of all of the above.

People risk their lives looking for it, not exactly knowing where or what it is.

Migrating animals have home embedded in their genetic makeup, and they use their ingrained compasses to get there.

Imagine being so secure with where you should be that it is part of your DNA?

Jealous.

People find their homes continents away from where they were born, while others don’t want to move away from the only horizon that they know.

Many find their homes in people, knowing that people can put a mental sledgehammer to the home constructed in their minds.

We are only human.

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Nikola Grace Radley
Nikola Grace Radley

Written by Nikola Grace Radley

Freelance writer. You can find me reading under a palm tree in Rio de Janeiro. E-mail: nikola.grace.radley@gmail.com

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