brissybee

"If you lived in your heart you would be at home by now."

I saw this on a bumper sticker yesterday and, whilst it's obviously a play on the words of an old saying, it got me thinking about what and where people think of as home.

When I saw the phrase I was in a gloomy concrete underground car park which seemed a long way from anywhere I'd want to call home.

What did you think when you read (or how do you interpret) the words above?

iamthecreaturefromuranus

If I'm asked where 'home' is, I think of Manchester... despite not having lived there for over 20 years and not having any desire to go back there. Odd really.

Dreamy

If I lived in my heart it would be a cold and bitter kind of place.

Hebe

Just think yourself lucky you have one

eddie007

If you lived in your heart....?

How you find it depends on whether you let people in.. Could be sad and lonely, or it could be filled with wonderful people.... Small Cold and bitter, or warm and inviting...

Jeez.. Who would have thought a bumper sticker could cause a conversation

moneypenny20

It would be kind of sticky and fairly noisy I'd have thought.

Dorothy

It would not! You are a whole lot nicer than a lot of people I know. You were a tremendous help to our mutual friend this past summer and I know how much she appreciated talking to you.

Anyway, if I lived in my heart I would be.....I don't know. While I'll always feel a pull to Canada I think I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that Australia is where I'm going to have to stay.

bingobob777

Menorca

Great food, nice weather no chavs. No need for a new rail network unfortunately, so I'll need to go when I no longer need to work.

scottishcelts

- you wicked wummin! (yer lovely really )

Home for me will always be the west coast of Scotland. Even if I don't ever return, it'll always be home. (not my mum's house either, just the land).

Butterfly Bokeh

There's no chavs in Menorca?
Sounds tempting

I guess it depends on how someone would interperate that? For me wherever my husband and children are is home to me, that isn't flippant, of course when I'm somewhere new it does take a little time but they are the ones that make me feel at home.

Bermudashorts

When i read it, I though it doesn't quite make sense and I don't know what it means. Bit too airy fairy for me, how can I live in my heart. No don't get it.

ROMFT_WO2RN

Load of new age/hippy tosh

carolinephillips

The Sheldon in me is trying to work out how it should read to make sense. I guess it could be simplified to mean "where would you truly call home?", which might not be where you are currently living.

I don't like "cutesy" sayings, they tend to make me gag, but in the spirit of this phrase, I still find myself inadvertently referring to the UK as home, even though I have no intention of going back there other than for a visit. When I dream about home. I am always in the little village of Urchfont, even though I have not lived there for over 30 years. I spent my late childhood/teen years there, and got married in the church with a real village wedding. So to my unconscious mind, that is Home.

To my conscious mind, home is here, where I am living now- or it will be if it ever gets renovated/decorated!!!


On the other hand I could be totally wrong, and it could mean that you have to live according to your true feelings not to have any regrets.........................see, it didn't make it clear did it?

Butterfly Bokeh

It sounds open to interpretation or intended to give anyone reading it a headache trying to work out what it's getting at

ozzieeagle

Couldn't do it without a time travel machine.

Because whats in my heart relates to what happened in the late 60's early 70's.... the place I've moved from is probably more alien now than Melbourne is today.

My heart seems to be stuck at around age 15/16/17/18.... Now if I could do expecially with what I know now life would be fantastic.

Why those years is the pertinent question I'm going to ask myself.