Personal Perspective: As we age, feeling comfortable, safe, secure, and at "home" in a community is therapeutic and healing.
Early memories of home shape later life expectations about comfort, trust, security, and safety in the world.Most people associate “home” with safety, security, and comfort. Our first homes tend to hold nostalgic places in our memories. Early life experiences, some real and some imagined, shape our lifelong ideas of what it means to be “at home” in the world. I have recently had the pleasure and privilege to live and work in Germany, one of my first homes.
How do these memories shape our later lives? Social and emotional selectivity theory tells us that time plays an important role in how we view our life goals and plans. According to this theory, as we age, we tend to change the way we view our life paths. We recognize that time is limited and that there is a need to prioritize experiences and focus on what is important and emotionally gratifying.
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