2025/Danika-

My home is a special place to me. Home is where I spend time with my family members and where I grew up. I experienced a lot of things at home.

Home is the place I miss when I’m not there. I have special feelings for my home. Whenever I'm not at home, I start to wish that I never even left, because it takes me around 5-10 minutes for me to start wishing I was back home. Wherever I go, even if it’s a party, event, a hangout with friends, the store and other places, there's a high chance I could be wishing to go home right at that moment. If there were places that I wouldn’t mind staying at instead of being home, I would probably be almost anywhere as long as I'm with close friends. This is different from just being at a hangout from friends because they're not my close friends. Therefore, I don't have a very strong connection with those people and I’m just normally used to being with my close friends. That doesn’t mean that I don't enjoy being with my friends that aren’t my close friends, it just means that I usually have more in common with my close friends so I can talk to them about anything.

Home is the place where I can be in the presence of my family. Being home with my family keeps me safe and where I feel comfortable. I don't talk to my family every second of the day when I’m at home, but I still like that I’m home with people I know and trust well. I have specific things I talk about with my family sometimes, like with my mom we would talk about if we want to go shop somewhere like at the mall. I also have a pet cat that's around 9 months old, and he is always home sleeping, running around, or whining. I love having a cat because then I won’t be completely alone when I get home from school, even though all he does is sleep.

Home helped me to develop the kind of person that I am. Things that I have in my home could lead to me forming new hobbies, which could change the type of person that I am. Even though I said that home developed who I was, there were other things that developed the kind of person I was too. If you ever had a very close friend that you would always be with and people would even see you with that person every time in the day, then over time, you could eventually start getting into more similar hobbies as them. I have a very close friend who I’m always with during school and even out of school sometimes. As I hang out with them, I always enjoy the time I spend with them, because they are like a similar meaning of home to me as well. I haven’t known them for over 5+ years, but I still have full trust in them. I would pick to work with them in anything, I would choose to hangout with them almost anytime, and other things I would do with them. I enjoy being with people that share similar interests as me.

To sum everything up, being at home is always the best choice for me. When I move away to get my own apartment or house, it won’t mean that the place I move into is nothing special. It will still have almost everything I need. As long as I still have a home, then my feelings for it will never change. Home makes me feel at peace and it’s my special place.