Houses represent many different things but in some regard, houses represent history. You'll learn that when your great grand parents arrived from Puerto Rico in 1964, they came on the back of the Caribbean Sea through the Mona Passage. You'll learn that they arrived in a small boat that survived the turmoil of the sea by a sheer miracle.
You'll learn that when they arrived at the Port of Jacksonville, they lodged in 841 Bay Street, Jacksonville, Florida. You'll learn that your great grandparents lodged in this historic house for a relatively brief period but this was where your granddad stayed with his parents when scouters came for him and he became a Jacksonville boxing sensation.
You'll find old photographs of your twenty-two year old grand dad and a Jacksonville boxing medal he won in July 17, 1964. You'll find that the photograph has the old-age house behind it and this house homes all the sentiments of your family's historic migration to the US and how you from this house that your great grand parents briefly lived went on to pursue the American dream.
Houses represent many different things. In some cultures, when a young man has gotten to later teenage years or aged a bit further, owning a house becomes a thing of status. You'll find young men buy a ride first and thereafter get a home. In some other instances, the house is gotten before the ride.
Homes are gotten for the fundamental need to get housed and to not wander the streets homelessly. But with regards to the sentiments of becoming among young men, you'll find that houses serve beyond sheltering one from homelessness. You'll find that getting a house is almost a rat race and the most vital part of it is the cost of the house and it's location.
You'll find young men detailing the features of their houses; two swimming pools, four Italy-made chandeliers, Japanese upholstery, et alia. Again, you'll find young men making efforts to buy houses in the most reputable part of a city. Some would move to the wealthiest states; California, Florida, et alia. At a higher pedestal, you'll find that everything is luxury; the coziest Jacuzzi, a garage-lodged Rolls-Royce and class.
Houses represent many different things, but in some regard houses convey the sentiments of the past. Sentiments as in old homes, large and windy, paints falling off the body of walls, and echoes. In such houses with echoes, you'll find that the homes are haunted and ghost-ravaged. These houses are evidence of past events as housing an old wizard that continuously conjured up spirits while living in the house. Of past misdoings as children gruesomely killed for rituals and the consequent never-ending sound of wailing children through subsequent decades. Of past crimes, as assassinations from poisoning and life-seizing orchestrations.
These houses are inhabitable. You'll dare to pass a night in these houses and whilst sleeping and facing up, you'll find that you're suffocating from some hands squeezing down on your neck. You'll find doors opening and closing haphazardly. You'll find ajar doors shutting suddenly with a firm force that sends a reverberating bang.
You'll find that whilst sleeping in these houses, you're dreaming of women, infants and toddlers that are sobbing and calling you for help. When jerked out of these scary dreams, you'll be sweaty, breathing on your top of your breath and shocked that they call you by your name. You'll open a few drawers and you'll find the dusty photographs of the women, infants and children in your dream. You'll find that they've lived in the house previously and their ghosts are closer to your skin that you can imagine.
In other such houses filled with sentiments of the gruesome past, you'll find dilapidating rooms, complex linkage of cobwebs and quite sparsely, skeletons and daunting human remains. You'll stare into a mirror and from the mirror, you'll find a pitiable cat standing behind you and staring into the mirror as well. When you look back, you'll find that there is no cat.
You'll find that these houses are grief-filled houses that are inhabitable and wading off the dark clouds hovering over these houses may require an appeasement that is by no means easy or ordinary.
Houses convey the sentiments of toddlers. Imprints of dirty little hands on walls, cracked window panes, paper kites, a bag of Legos. These houses carry the warmth of homes. In these houses, you'll find the stiff scolds of an angry father and hurting children that are recipients of these scolds. In the kitchen, you'll find rising vapour and the scent of fried plantains. You'll find dirty dishes and about them, an evidence of a sumptuous meal.
In these houses, you'll find warmth and the bonding strings of laughter, funny experiences shared as captivating stories. If you listen, you'll hear stories detailing a few prior years. How a child pronounced words when she was a toddler, the story of how her most hated snack became her favorite one. What grandmother always gave the kids at her visit and why thanksgiving is always memorable.
You'll hear out what life was in the countryside before Mum met Dad and their twain became a unit that moved to the city and made family.
In other such houses, the situation differs. You'll hear the clang of dislodged kitchenware. A chipped plate, a broken ceramic, the metallic clatter of stainless frypan flung in annoyance. You'll find that the air is stuffed with animosity. In the centre of a disappointment-clogged exchange, you'll find evidence of infidelity.
You'll find questions of where the cheating incidence took place. What the post-nuptial body count is. For how long. You'll find a man enquiring in displeasure if he deserves a cheating partner.
Elsewhere, you'll find houses hung in imbalance. You'll find a single mother cursing under breath as she makes a phone conversation. In her phone conversation, you'll find her demanding for child-support and threatening further legal action. Without bias, you'll find that she's distressed and the tiring variables of the situation have peaked to a height where she can become distressed. These houses carry the pursuit of survival and the fittings of needs.
