The True Feeling of Home

And the different ways of feeling at home.

Bryan Dijkhuizen
Mind Cafe
Published in
4 min readJul 20, 2024

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Image by Jejo Jose on Unsplash

Home is a concept.

To me it can be something completely different than it would to you — therefore it is a concept.

The concept of home consists of many things.

Most people would describe it as “in their house”, but that doesn’t always cover the meaning of it.

Home is much broader than a single place.

In this article, we’ll explore the various meanings of home and what it means to have one.

The first feeling of home

People have had homes for many, many years.

The first type of home that we know is the caves pre-historical humans lived in. Those were by nature created shelters to protect them from the predators around them and the bad weather.

By Frank Vincentz — Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 — via Wikipedia

After that, people started building more structured buildings consisting of sticks and stones.

Around 10,000 BCE, a development happened: the permanent homes out of stones.

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
Mind Cafe

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/