Many say home is where the heart is, and an apartment, house, or dorm room does not necessarily make a place a home. A home is a place where you can feel comfortable and safe. ... A homecan be from actually living in a house to camping out in the mountains for a few days.
The feeling of being "at home" can't be bought, however, because it comes from an intimate relationship between us and our most personal place. Like other love affairs, this one shapes us just as we shape it. A place can also become a home with the people you surround yourself with. It doesn’t just have to be about how the place feels, but how the people around you are influencing you.
For one of the workers the car wash is a 'home'. To him, the car wash provides him with shelter, a secure and safe place. He has very minimal facilities but he has the basics which allows him to wash himself and clothes, sleep as well a fridge and hob to cook food. Often he has people visit him where they keep him company. This shows how the car wash is a home to him as it allows him to have the basics of living. Without the car wash he would be homeless and on the streets with no job and money for food. The car wash is his life, from the daytime where he works until when it closes where this industrial cold workplace shifts into a home.
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