[BLOG] A place called home

It's a straightforward thing that people come up with interesting ways to describe.
"Home is where heart is"
"Sometimes home isn't four walls, it's two eyes and a heartbeat"
"Home is people"
Of course, this is a noble line of thinking, but I could say that, home is a place where I can play games over 24 hours while playing loud music, while watching anime in the background, without any interruption.
I know what you're thinking, "that's such a teen way to describe home". I mean, every teen at one point in time, wishes the same. So what changes when we grow up?
What changes is that we realise the importance of bonds. Be it bonds of friendship, bonds of family, bonds of lovers, or any such bond for that matter. Human beings have managed to survive all these years against odds due to this mechanism. It's in-built mechanism in our brain that makes us think that herd is better than solo.
One of the downfalls of evolution. People begin to think that a person is ill or not fit for society if he is a loner.
The problem lies in evolution. Back in the early days of human evolution, people relied on herds to stay alive. Getting separated from the herd meant a certain death. Thus, our brains evolved. Making us think that being alone is wrong and what followed was the continuous downward spiral of the social stigma surrounding loneliness. This line of thinking is not only rudimentary but also harmful to individuality and creativity of the person. In the current era, humans have formed social cliques mimicking herds and try to justify it and pass it off as a norm.
Let me break it down for you guys. If we extrapolate human society into animal kingdom, I consider the new generation of humans herds as pack of wolves. They prey on the weak(people who are alone) and try to pass of their line of thinking as the truth. Every such clique of wolves has an alpha male/female whose words are regarded as the truth. People try to blend into the herds them to avoid being preys. Herd mentality makes them give up their line of thinking and inherently makes them all the more dependent on the herd. This ruins any shred of creativity they had and destroys their confidence.

Getting back to the topic of homes, it is a vastly subjective word. Everyone has their own definition of home. Which is fine, after all it's this individuality that separates us from the herd.

Well if we are picking animals, I would consider myself as the polar bear. Alone, hungry, lazy and glorious. Yeah we're dying out, (thanks global warming) but so is everyone, at a different pace.