Home Is Whispering To The Mirror Image And Feeling Joyous
Happiness in self-love and self-care Is my home
I found this photo (above)in my mother’s collection of pictures one day when I was cleaning her old photos. This was long after she passed away.
How my mother made a home for me
My mother was a happy person and a wonderful singer. She used to be happiest when she sang and danced. She would be the center of attraction and make everyone sing with her. It would always turn into a joyous occasion.
She always said a house without singing and dancing made it boring and not feel like home.
Since my mother was talented as well as hospitable people flocked around her. Our house would always have people around.
This was the way I was brought up with a lot of love.
Now what does home mean to me?
With the blessings of my mother, I feel that a home is a happening place and I carried out the tradition when I made my own home to make a home bright and lively always.
🍀A home is a place of smiles and laughter
It has to be a place with a lot of activity and true to my mother’s spirit of spreading happiness, when my children grew up they always saw people over and our dining area was always full with their friends or with our family friends.
My children were very happy to go to their grandparent's homes both nani(Mother’s mother) and their dadi (father’s mother). Both homes were joyful and they enjoyed visiting them.
The sound of smiles and laughter always makes me feel happy at home. I have had visitors coming to my home from all over the world. Both family and friends always knew that they were welcome and they poured in.
🍀A home is a place of comfort for the family
A home should always be comfortable where you can relax and do what you wish to do. You can shout with all your might or whisper for no one to hear. My kids would of course have many sibling jokes and also get upset with each other but would soon make up and be happy again.
Each of them made the home a very special place to be in. Often we were sitting together and discussing our daily affairs and what we did with ourselves the whole day.
The boys discussed what happened with their friends and what happened in their educational spaces in class or in the sports field.
The home seemed so worthwhile and beautiful.
🍀Home is whispering to the mirror image and smiling. — Creating comfort for yourself
Now that the children have left home, and gone on to make their own lives I have added a third dimension to what a home means to me and this is best reflected by my mother’s collection of photos.
I do not know where my mother got the above photo or who was in it. My mother is no longer alive to tell me but I just loved the way the lady looked in the mirror. It gave me a third dimension of what my home should feel like.
When I look at the picture, I feel I am whispering to myself in the mirror and am able to get a lot of comfort self-love, and joy.
A home is a place that is full of smiles and laughter, It must be comfortable and a place where family has a lot of comfort but it is also a place where you can be yourself.
To wrap up
You can talk to yourself in the mirror or whisper to yourself and create magic and laugh and smile and just be yourself. Make your place joyous. Laugh, sing, and dance. Dress and look in the mirror. It is you. Just the authentic you and you are comfortable and happy in your home.
You have to adjust to each new circumstance and change in life and make your home happy and comfortable for yourself for Home is where your heart is.
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