What Home and Security means to you ?

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Tonight I was trying to get dinner and my oven won't work. It did 2 days ago, it just gets to me as so many things are broken around here, with no money to have them fixed. I guess I am what they refer to here (Australia) as "the working poor", means I do not get government assistance, which also means I can't even ask for help from charities, I feel like I have just "fallen thru the system". It's not just the oven, there are so many other things, some much harder than others. I do without whatever I can, yes I have internet, as that's how I make the only income I have. I have no family, and my partner died a few years ago. No matter how bad things get, I just feel so grateful to have this home, I am so aware of so many people in my country and elsewhere being homeless. I guess this is even so much more important to me as I never really had a family home, and I guess since the age of around 15 my main ambition was to have a secure home. So what does a sense of security and home mean to you ?