Emotional-diarrhea

 

  What is home?  Home is a feeling of safety in that which seems familiar.  Home is a space where there is no need for pretence or show, because home accepts you as you are.  Home is a manifestation of comfort, that emerges in both the animate and inanimate.  From the chocolate brown sofa that sunk you as you sat into its snug embrace,  Or the Myna perched on the hanging planter by your bedroom window sill, intent to wake you up with its incessant cooing on a Saturday morning.  It's the smell of ginger milk tea being poured into your mother's wedding china, as you chatted on the steps of the backdoor.  Perhaps it's your grandfather's oversized bubble textured rubber Batas - the ones' you used to wear when you played run-and-catchers in the garden.  It could be how the edge of your father's bed was always the best place to watch Tamil movies on school night.  Or maybe it's the smell of fresh grass watered by missing Uncle Hello on a monso...