The philosopher Martin Heidegger said that all of modern reality is an existential situation of homelessness and that our difficulty in learning to reside is actually our difficult in accepting our conflicted nature, because we will forever be torn between the need for the feeling of a home and the feeling of the need to be free of it. We are afraid to lose our home, but as in the story of the ultimate loss of a home - the expulsion from the Garden of Eden - sometimes the result of losing a home is the greatest gift one can receive: freedom and responsibility. On the other hand, because we were expelled, longing for a home, for the pleasure of striking roots, is forever engraved in our mind. Heidegger thought this longing is related to our urge to be released from the freedom we have obtained for ourselves,

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