'home'

Without even thinking about it, most people make a distinction between 'house' and 'home' or 'place I live' and 'home'. You can live somewhere for a long long time but it'll never be your home. And vice versa.

I guess I'm questioning what makes something 'homely'. The people who live there with you? The objects you fill the place with? The memories and experiences you've had there? A combination of these things?

'Home' tends to be a feeling, people call things 'homely' or say they feel 'at home' somewhere. But what happens when there's nowhere left that you feel at home?

For me, home is somewhere where I'm 100% comfortable and I have my own space to do with as I please.