Strength of a House

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Last Sunday, I was reading an article by the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/guides/realestate/home-decor-ideas). The article is about reinventing your house, basically about home décor. What caught my eye was "Do it well and you'll end up with a comfortable and happy home." Well, it is very true that we need good and well arranged furniture to make our houses look organized but, do furniture make our houses happy?

I have kept pondering over this fact for many days. I tried imagining myself, if I had no bed to sleep on would I be happy or maybe if I didn't have a dining table to dine on would I feel miserable. I won't feel any, certainly! For a materialistic person all these goods may affect but only to a certain extent! Home isn't limited only to furniture. The people with whom we live make our dwelling comfortable and not a maple wood flooring!

Bond with our family members or with whom we dwell is what makes a house happy or sad. Home is that paradise where you can sneak to escape all your troubles. It actually isn't the four wall which comfort you but the people that live in it! The warmth of any close relation will protect you from chilly winds of the outer world....

'Comfortable' was another world that struck me. Imagine the way you behave when you are invited to someone else's house, no matter how close the relative or the friend would be, there would be a slight difference in the way you behave at your place and at the invitee's. This difference in behavior was surely not the result of furniture! See, that's the comfort your house has! The comfort level has nothing to do with the materialistic things but with the kind of relations we share that keeps us at our ease!

On a serious note, our domicile is so much more that just a place to live in! I am not against home décor....they make our houses more beautiful and appealing to eyes, but ultimately it is the bond that brings us back to our house and not the couch!

With modernization the structures of our houses are changing. I am happy with the changes as they are the essence of life but, the bonds with whom we live mustn't change as that is the strength of any house. 


Comments

  1. Aashish S TattuJune 5, 2021 at 7:20 PM

    'What will the magnificent house give where peoole don't want to look at each other?'
    Such is the importance of bonding.

    It is well written and to the point without beating around the bush. 😃

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  2. UnknownJune 6, 2021 at 12:03 AM

    Nice Suhani

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