Buying a House is Like the People and Relationships in Our Lives

They were always there all along but...

As a homebuyer, looking for a home can be a fun and exciting experience. You daydream about what that home will look like, how will it feel to live in it, care for it, and treat it with the upmost love and respect.

You wonder how your dear and true home is going to reciprocate that love and treatment back in return. Will it be good to you, or will it make a hole in your pocket to try and repair? Did you make the right decision?

In a certain way, a home, people and relationships compare and are synonymous to each other. We look for something that will benefit our future, our hearts, our goals, our dreams. We search for things that will make our hearts content and makes us feel proud of having. We also want to ‘belong', we want to feel warm, tender, and can't wait to get home after a long, hard day of work.

A home is also an accomplishment, a retreat. We have to make sure that we care for it so that nobody will take it away. Another house might come to mind because we liked what we saw but always come to ‘home, sweet, home'. We put a guard on it by alarming it to keep thieves away; after all, it is one of the biggest treasures and possessions that we will have in our lives.

You make an investment in your home and see the benefits reap in the near future and feel secure. You want to grow old with it. The same is with a relationship. You put time, energy and effort taking care of it, you nourishe it, you dress it, build memories, your love grows with time and before you know it, years have gone by and you are still together.

When you find it for the first time you knew that it had to be the one. You had that gut feeling, an instinct, a sixth sense that ‘that' one is it, it's perfect, it's what I have been looking for, ‘it's mine' you say excitedly.

Time is a thief. If you find a home that might need repair beyond your expectations, go for it. Looks are deceiving and never judge a book by its cover. Just because a home is beyond repair does not mean that it is not a good investment. The same goes with the people and relationships in our lives.

Nobody is perfect. You will grow old looking for perfection. If we are to only accept and look for things that are perfect then we will never have friends, people, relationships or that home that was there all along, all that time, but...

© 2008 Diana Perez