September 1- Interaction with Landscapes of the Sacred
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the soul” wrote by Simone Weil (found in Landscapes of the sacred pg 7)
This summer I said goodbye to my childhood home. This experience affected me more than I expected. Since I am in college now, I really won’t be home much anyway so why should where I go for a few weeks of the year matter. All logic says it shouldn’t matter as long as I am still seeing my family and friends. Yet in reality this book is correct in that a place makes up a person and people make places. That home made me who I am. All my big life transitions have happened there. I became a preteen and then a teenager. Every birthday and holiday and milestone of my life has been celebrated there. I never really realized how much impact my home had on those events for me until it was time to leave. That place had become a sacred place to me. With all this being true, I also realized how much we had made that home. As we packed boxes up and the house slowly emptied it didn’t feel right anymore. The magic that made that house sacred to me was being taken. I realized then what really makes a place sacred are the memories and people there. My new house doesn’t have the same memories as the old one so it’s not sacred yet. However, it does have something much more important. The people who make my life. We made that old house sacred and for me it always will be a sacred spot, but this new house has the potential to become just as important to me. There will be landmarks and celebrations by my family and friends that will make that place sacred. So while that old house made me who I am, this new one will make me who I become.
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