Place

If there were a hundred unrelated people to ask to describe their home, none of them will say the same thing. One person might say that his home is a one-story house with gable roof and chimney inside has his mom and his dad live in. Another person might say a high rise apartment have the most comfortable bed living alone. For me, home is where I live with my mom and my siblings. It is where I sing in a shower. It is where I bake during weekend. And it is where I sleep almost everyday. ;) It is where four of us shared our happiness and depression. That is a home for me.

When people think of home, they think of a place they live. One house can never be a home or a place with no memories ties them up with our perception. It will be just a space. From the example of home, the locations of home for those people are different from one and another. But that is not a factor why they define home differently but because of the memory that tie to the space they live become a place for them call home. Place is where you have interaction with. It is a social construct. It is a connection of people, earth, sky and divine. Home is a type of dwelling and to dwell means to isolate, to interact and to interconnect.

In class we were shown the movie called “Powaqquatsi”. This movie has no dialog but background music. It is a movie show about how people live in Brazil. It shows a hard lifestyle that Brazilians have. What they have to care is not object, reputation or social status but something that could sustain their life day by day. This is a place called Brazil that shows in the movie. Our memory ties us to the name Brazil through the movie. The place has context, interconnection and interaction from people to earth to sky and the divine. That make that place a place.