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“Homes are three dimensional mirrors, endlessly adjusting to our own changing reflection throughout our lives.”
Sudha Hamilton
Our home is a lively reflection of our state of being, one that is constantly updated by our presence and the presence of our co-inhabitants; usually family, friends and loved ones. What if I were to, hypothetically speaking, steal into your home and in a slice of life moment cast my gaze around, as if in a museum, observing the anthropological evidence which makes up your life; but always with the awareness that there is vita mores to come. Of course homes change as we do, they reflect our stages of life:
As children in a home, they are places to explore and to sometimes fear when the lights go out at night, they are also like the favourite clothes our mother and father might wear; and are thus forever associated with them. When we are teenagers they can be experienced as prisons of extreme boredom, never changing in their appearance or nature, always contaminated by the reactionary attitudes of our parents and places we might dream of escaping. Perhaps as young adults, in our first experience of living away from mum and dad, they are places of glorious freedom. With no one to nag you to clean up, and any questionable hygiene issues and structural disrepairs are experienced positively as charming aspects of freshly found domestic bliss. Then as first time parents the home becomes a place requiring attentive renovation to make safe, quiet, and nurturing for your beloved offspring. As a family home for our children it is often a bustling, noisy place shaking with all the life going on there. Then after the children have left the nest, quiet descends and the contrast can be mausoleum like after years of frenetic activity. We then may move to something smaller, just for two and with lots of retiring quiet. Homes are, I think, three dimensional mirrors, endlessly adjusting to our own evolving reflection throughout our lives.
Homes are of course very valuable, and not just in monetary terms, they are indispensable to the majority of us for our wellbeing and sense of identity. Some of us spend more time in our home than others do, some of us do more with our homes than others, but whatever the degree of involvement we may have with our home, its existence is vitally important to our health and happiness. Most of us appreciate a holiday away from our home, every now and then, but we also love coming home after that holiday, back to where we have got everything just the way we like it. Medical science and psychologists recognise that moving home can be one of the most stressful processes that a human being can go through, right up there with death of a loved one and divorce. Our home is our bedrock, upon which we rely, for the strength and resilience a life well lived demands of us.
©Sudha Hamilton – excerpt from his book House Therapy: Discovering who you really are at home.
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BIO:
Sudha Hamilton is a polymathic personality who is passionate about the human condition. Writer, publisher, designer, chef and entrepreneur, he has had a rich and varied life, full of intrepid experiences. He has been published in WellBeing, Conscious Living and Eco Living Health Aware Magazines.
For more information about Sudha:
sudhahamilton.com midasword.com.au sacredchef.com
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