IDEAL HOME

What does your ideal home look like?

An ideal home is never defined by luxuries and affluence of a magnificent building called house as many have proposed, it is a simple union of selfless, affectionate, loving, forbearing and honest people that are either connected by vow or by blood.

It is not anchored on the fantasy of riches and wealth as men imagine, it is a product of collectivism, self-denial, and absolute commitment to cater for the emotional differences and physio-spiritual needs of people that are either connected by vow or by blood.

There is a distinctive contrast between a house and a home. House is a building or a residential apartment where people live, while home defines the existentialism of harmonious and affectionate family members whose living reflects peace and preference for one another.

When our imagination of an ideal home is predicated on wealth, we tend to forget that no amount of money can purchase the norms, values and principles of an ideal home. I have seen rich men (husbands), women (wives) and rich children that are psycho-emotionally homeless, (no peace, no love, no harmony, no time for one another and no affection). I have equally seen an affectionately loving and caring father, mother and children, though without the physical riches and wealth.

Therefore, my ideal home is defined by love, affection, contentment, commitment, cordiality, care, loyalty, understanding, unity and peace that exist among family members.

In the real sense of it, ideal homes are very scarce in this dispensation, this is evident in the countless numbers of broken home, disjointed families and cases of divorce.

An ideal home is a product of conscious and deliberate effort to be committed one to another in a family. It is never a product of wealth or affluence.