Count Your Blessings #70: Nostomania

One of the mind games I try to play in order to keep my brain active is to try and learn a new word every day. I do this by subscribing to wordsmith.org A.Word.A.Day. I don’t always remember them because, to be honest, sometimes the word is not one I’m likely to use in my normal life.

I’ve been away on business this week. I left on Tuesday and returned late Thursday. On Wednesday the word for the day was nostomania.

Nostomania: An overwhelming desire to return home or to go back to familiar places.

I’m not sure I was suffering an ‘overwhelming desire’ but when I am away the desire to be home is always there.

I count it a real blessing that my home is somewhere that I actually want to return to.

Thing may not always be rosy at home, but I’d rather be here than anywhere else on earth.

But what makes a home – a home. It’s not the building, or even the things in it, it is the people inside and the people near by.