An essay written for school assignment~ It was my favourite. I tried not to edit the mistakes just to preserve it the way it is.
Have you ever wonder how many ideal home one can have? An ideal home should be a home which one really wants to be in. But, is it possible to have more than one ideal homes? My answer would be that it goes with the age.
When I was a very young girl, I stayed in a wooden house. The house was surrounded by trees. There were hole around the house. People from outside could peek at what my family was doing. The floor could squeak, laugh or worse - break. I never dared to look outside the window because my imagination could run wild that I could see an old woman staring from the trees. That kind of home is scary for a young girl I was. So at that age, my ideal home is a house so perfect without any old ladies, no trees, no holes and no floor.
As I grew just a little older, I learn that we need a floor in our house. At the age of eight, I started watching Disney movies with princesses and castles. My ideal home at that time is to own a castle where my father is wearing the golden crown worn only by kings, and my mother would waved from the balcony in silk, pretty dresses. I would be the princess along with my sisters and brother. We will live in a castle with fairies outside guarding it. That was before I learn that my father is not king or a king's descendant and I will never be a princess.
That was the end of a castle as an ideal home. When I turn eleven years old, I was a big fan of Sailormoon. Towards the end of the story, Sailormoon own a crystal castle made by a magical silver crystal. Aside from the fact that there's magic, I know that we must work hard to get what we want. So, I plant a desire to search for a magical crystal somewhere on Earth and build my own crystal bungalow. But deep in me know that there are no magical crystal so I wanted the normal ones. I hope I could earn an enourmous amount of money to build a crystal house. That was my ideal home until I was in Form 1.
Due to the increasing amount of storybooks, magazines and a few other type of books at home, our space in the house becomes less and less. Most of the racks in my house is filled with only books. We were living in an estate bungalow at this time. My parents suggested that I throw my comic book collection or give it away which I strongly refused. So when I was in Form 2, I saw a painting that changes my ideal home. It was a mansion of the suppose to be Kellie Castle. I remembered Beauty and the Beast, Special A and a few other stories that have an enourmous library in their mansion. Thus, that was my ideal home. A big red-brick mansion surrounded by ivy and a special enourmous room for a library where I can store all the books my family and I ever owned.
However when I was Form 3, before the year 2009 ends, I made friends with a younger girl. Her family was well known because each of them are smart people. Her father is a doctor. Even when they can afford a large house, they live in a simple small bungalow. But they live happily and her father was able to buy more of their needs and wants as well as spending more on their education. At that moment, I thought of my ideal home. Maybe I could just buy a two-storey bungalow and make sure that the second floor is my personal library.
Now, I'm living with my grandparents. They are not in their best condition. In fact, their health is getting worse. By the time I knew it, I have already change my ideal home. I want a home where I could see the faces of my family when I returned from school or in the future, work. I want a space to gather up to exchange jokes and dine together. I want a place where the air is clean so that I don't worry about the health of my family members. Most of all, I want a home where I could be happy with the rest of my family for the rest of our lives. That is my ideal home for to me right now, my family is a place called home.
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