What Does Home Mean To Me

Taking a couple of seconds of your day to speak to someone can make an enormous difference in their day. Everyday there are people that go through feeling incredibly alone with no one to speak to because no one acknowledges them. Acknowledgment is immensely important in life because without it you’ll feel alone in the world and feel as if no one cares. According to Michael Hyde, acknowledgement is “a communicative behavior that grants attention to others and thereby makes room for them in our lives.” Many moments in my life I have felt as if I have been acknowledged, but many moments I have not.
As a younger girl it was extremely hard for me to feel apart of something and I was spoken to, but no place ever felt like home not even my own house. Elementary was a difficult time because I didn’t fit in with the students around me and although that was frustrating, going home was harder. There was always days when I would go home and wanted to tell my family about my day, but no one acknowledged my presence. It was hard to go to a place I called “home” everyday and it never actually felt like home because no one would speak to me or try to …show more content…
The girl I was in elementary was sad, shy and different, but the girl I was in high school was outgoing, happy, and “normal.” Acknowledge is also important because without it we don’t even feel as if we exist since no one takes the times to acknowledge your existence. Not being acknowledged made me feel as if I was a ghost just wandering through life, but when I was being acknowledged I felt alive and apart of the world. Hyde even stated it could be a “life-giving gift” meaning that one conversation where you actually acknowledge a person could be the difference between that person deciding to live or die. A simple conversation can change many things without you even knowing it and that is extremely