Where is HOME? What is HOME?

At times I think home is where my heart is and that is my country. After all I have come here for a better career and having a better life was never a priority. I think I was better off when I was home. Qatar is my temporary pitstop. Its a passing phase in life. I dont have a family here.All I have is a job which is a step in the right direction in my career and a few friends who will remain friends for life. I would say home is where your heart is and in my case it's India.

Life is Beautiful...Indeed!

home is probably where i wanna be laid to rest...

kinda morbid i know.

Home is where your heart is..

"Manila I'm coming home!"

Wise words indeed!

Corne, home for me is the land i was born, the land where i walked my firsat baby steps, the land where i had my first rain, the land i had my first education. Every place else, is just a resting place before finally reaching back to where i call home.

Simply put, Qatar can never be home for me, nor any other country in the world. There are certain things that shaped me the way i am, and my homeland has a lot to do with it.

I would rather die that deny my homeland its rightful place in my heart. Home is INDEED where the heart is, and heart, is indeed where the homeland is.

It really is where the heart is. I was born outside of my native country, so for me having a home, is more where the people I love reside. The problem with that unfortunately is that after so many years as an expat, the people and family that I love and care about are scattered around the world.

This makes it difficult. :( So even though, my home is where my husband and child are; I also think that "home" is the country where you feel most comfortable. Where you can relate to how people think and do things, I suppose.

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi

i am italian working in Switzerland at the moment... so i am a stranger in Switzerland and the Swissgirl when i am going to Italy...

i travelled a lot and lived in many places... i alway was the ItalianSwiss... so never really at home.. but actually i love to stay in different places.. but HOME... home is where my loved one are, my family and my sweetlove is and where i "lost my heart"... ;o)

Recently i don't have home.I am trying to make in hell.Home is just like a den.From where i can rule. he he he ehe he he

"Rulling in hell is better than to serve in heaven"

They say home is where your heart is. So I feel my home is my origin. But now there are lots of things that I like about Doha (You QL guys are also in the top3) and when I am home, I also miss Doha a little bit. But I can't imagine staying here forever, so it's defenetely not my home although I have feelings for it.

...they really weren't that close to begin with. What happened is that whatever superficial convenience that was keeping you associating with those people, went away with you.

I find that those who always were my friends, are always there, no matter how much time or distance has come between us. We just pick up where we left off.

If you can't to that, they never were your friends...just acquaintances...

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I don't have to be #1, I just have to be...

Any tool can be a hammer....

"I really liked this discussion, for a moment I thought am the only one who was going through this?!?!? Yes indeed, when I go back "home" I feel like a stranger!!!!!!"

----> I know exactly what you mean. When i go back home for hols, trying to meet up with friends or relatives. They complained because we dont see them that much. But when i want to see them asking to meet up at a specific day ... they have an excuse saying that they are busy doing this and that ... change to another day ... they have something else on... I come half way cross the globe to see them and they cant spare a day to see me??? I probably asking too much much from them.

Novita , No One

knows where would he/she dies ... but I wish to die in my home, I want my home land to get my body ... guess it would be so soft, kind and nice to that old dead man .. what do you think?

-----> i understand how you feeling, i also feels for you because of the situation of your home country.

Where my toothbrush is.

No, seriously, right now, home is right here (My summer house in the northern of Spain)...but home is also in Doha, where my husband is, and in Madrid, where I grew..., and home is also where my mother lives, and in France, where my husband´s family live...

I´m so lucky to have a handful of places that I can call home..., maybe because all my belongings, clothes and stuff are sparced a bit everywhere

there was a thread which asked how one felt about Qatar. I'd only been here a week or so but I remember typing something like 'as I stepped off the aircraft I knew I was home'.

Now, I think this comes back to home being where your heart is because when my hub and I got married we lived in Jeddah and it was the first place we were together as man and wife and the first time we made friends 'together' and first time we set up 'home' together.

I sub-consciously relate living in the Middle East with one of the happiest times of my life when I was with the man in my heart!

So, yes, in that case 'home' can be ANYWHERE that you feel the happiest and 'most at home' with (if you see what I mean) and, in my case, where my heart (euphemism for hub) is.

you are right, but it’s not only about getting kicked out anytime. Your home country protects you as a citizen at the first place. You are in Qatar as long as you work here. You are manpower here, not anything else! No matter how much I love Qatar, and no matter how long I stay here, I will never call Qatar My Home Land. Yes, I like Qatar, but it’s soooooo great to know that I have my backside, my rear: my Canada!

I worked away from home since I was 16, araound Britain.

My Mum used to tell me off if I talked of going back to where I was working as going home so I never do that.

At the moment I can't wait to get away from my home town Birkenhead.

But I hope I will always refer to it as home.

If I an in a place for a long time I will say for instance "shall we go back home now", even when talking about a hotel.

Call me Maninibat!

Corne, Home is where the heart is!!!

knows where would he/she dies ... but I wish to die in my home, I want my home land to get my body ... guess it would be so soft, kind and nice to that old dead man .. what do you think?

I have family in Canada and Qatar, I have friends in Canada and Qatar, so I guess home is Canada and Qatar. :) I consider myself pretty lucky to have to places to call home.

"I fight with love and I laugh with rage, you have to live light enough to see the humor and long enough to see some change." Ani Difranco

Dont talk about death yet because you dont know what the future brings to you.Take each day how it comes and try to give your best and destiny will show you your way.I think you have a lot to do on this planet and no time yet to think about death.

*Create your own destiny,fighting against your dark sides,raise your

spirituality.Every day is a new day.A new life.

Keep the faith!*

Yes home is where love, family is. BUT sometimes u go to where ur family is and it still doesn't feel like home! U go back to ur country and it still doesn't feel like home! U settle here and it still doesn't feel like home! As for ur identity, u don't know who u are anymore, or what ur affliations are, or where u belong. Yes Qatar is my home now...but can't I get kicked out anytime ? It can happen, and because of that I don't feel completely home...I am a stranger here. Sucks!

corne..i understand your sentiments dear..and now don't make me feel the way you are feeling now, coz its hard..am emotional..

trying to fit in a foreign land, sometimes it makes me Nauseous, and yes cry in my own little corner asking myself what im doing here..but as they always say to me.."what to do yan?"..sigh..

see what you did corne..:P

Home is where the heart is !!!!!!!! isn't it?!?!

I really liked this discussion, for a moment I thought am the only one who was going through this?!?!? Yes indeed, when I go back "home" I feel like a stranger!!!!!!

Home could be where your family is, that is u are a family oriented person!!!!

Home to me is the place where u feel that u are settled, have peace of mind, happy, surrounded by your loved ones.....and where ur heart feeels @ ease!!!!!!

Unfortunately I didnt find home yet :)))))))))))

Home is where the heart is

Cheeeerz

Hi Nemo,dear :-D

Hope you are fine.

...Well for me is home where my love is.And my family and friends.

So i have a home in Doha and one here in Swiss and i feel great in both.I think you can make any place in this world to a home if you do it with your heart and a smile.

:-)

*Create your own destiny,fighting against your dark sides,raise your

spirituality.Every day is a new day.A new life.

Keep the faith!*

U know Corne...as such that it sounds to be a beautiful thread...

Jus a quick thing...that u cud keep in mind...

Even though u have been in a country out of urs for say maybe 20-25 yrs or even 35 yrs...there is nothing like Home Back Home...U might think again...that u might feel out of place back home...but hey atleast that is something u can call UR LAND...which isnt the case elsewhere anywhere in the world even if u got citizenship and all crap of other countries...

Country where ur folks stay, where u have ur own house (the very first), the country where they speak ur language as the primary one and not additional ones...and most importantly..a country where in u can sit on a recliner chair, with one leg over the other...and not be called as Second Fiddle and not be looked like a stranger is WHAT I WUD CALL HOME SWEET HOME..................

I agree with novi and owen, that home is where our families are. But what about everything outside ur family? What about the surroundings? Take Qatar for example, I am discriminated to as where I'm from, and although I love the whole multi-cultural life, sometimes it gets lonely cause noone really understands ur customs, ur country, ur lifestyle there, etc. whereas in ur homeland everything is so familar yet because u've been away for a long time..it starts to feel different. Am I making any sense ?

As King E said - where i lay my head. My wife hates my ability to call a hotel "home" but i have moved around a lot in my short time here and expect to move on again soon.

Yes, Cornellian - QL was getting a bit heavy on the previous forum, i couldn't write quick enough to get my message in......

King ... may i ask where do you want to die in your old age? Do you still have the desire to go back to your home country?

Novita> Good after noon dear friend, how are you doing these days? Long time no see .. looks like you are really busy with your group these days and that is why we can't see you that much :)

Cornellian> You are right my friend, no matter where do you live there is nothing like home. It is more like the birds, no matter to where they do travel and go ... they go back home in the end .. some take years to do that, but in the end they go back home my dear friend ...

I was always finding the idea of dying somewhere in the world .. anywhere except home really something very sad that brings tears to my eyes ...

SO normally I feel home when I am on vacations.MAy be some beach resort or even a hotel room..lol

u been living here for so many years, i guess Qatar can be consider as your home :-)

what is home?..home should be my family..where? that i have to think about..but it gotta be my heart..am still considering options to where my home would be..(so sentimental, you got me touchy on this one corne honey)..:)

hi corne,

home is where my husband and my son is. I been living away since i am 18 ... so as far as i am happy and feel settle anywhere in the world, thats my home.

But does it always feel like home?

Being an expat is a blessing and a curse, a blessing that we get to see different places, experience different cultures and learn new things; a curse because we become like gypsies.

Anywhere I roam, Where I lay my head is home.