A Castle Full of Treasured Memories

The key turns and the front door opens to reveal the empty rooms with bare walls and spacious floors to its new owner. The rooms quickly populate with boxes full of life. Soon the boxes are opened as fast as they enter each room. The contents decorate and cover the bland walls. Paintings populate walls, couches stand in front of lit fireplaces, and dining tables lined with dishes and silverware for the next meal. However, that a home is not just a house full of paintings and furniture. I believe that a home holds a story that never stops expanding. A home is where memories are made and held close to the heart of anyone living there. It is something that a house by itself cannot achieve. I believe that the sounds and smells that fill the home make it what it is. Whether it’s coming home from school and smelling the long-awaited dinner that grandmother cooked up or the sounds of birds singing outside on a branch near an open window, a home is where you can stop for a moment and relax. I believe that a home allows you to truly be whomever you want and allows you to do whatever you please. It gives you privacy, it is your own world and the front door is a portal to society where you follow strict guidelines and rushing deadlines. From the moment I started preschool, I felt that home was where I could be my true self. I felt almost invincible at home eating popcorn with hot butter all over my fingers and trying to find the remote under the couch to turn the volume up. I found that my powers and freedom drain as soon as I step through the door. Ever since that realization, I would count each minute until the school bell rang signaling the end of class. I saw that others experienced that too; at the beginning of the day everyone shuffles to their classes and at the end of the day everyone scrambles to get out of the building as if it were a race to get home. A home is when personality and memories come together to form a dwelling that envelops you after coming home from a long day. It is like a castle full of treasure that you never want to leave, it is our safe-haven.