The Way Home and the Need to Find a Safe Place
The moral case for finding a safe place where you can take risks.
A safe place is something we all want.
A place to go where we don’t have to think about whatever is happening around us. Whether it’s from crime or a terrible storm or maybe sometimes even our own family. We want to forget about all these things and just embrace the warmth of a cozy space. It’s an incredibly comforting feeling to know that you can go there and get away. Especially when you have lost something like your job or a relationship.
We return to these places and use them to figure out our next steps. To find out how and when we will feel comfortable enough to take a risk again. Much as we might want to, we can’t just stay in our safe place forever. At some point you’re going to need to do something which might be a risk. Things like finding a new job or opening yourself up to a new relationship. Life is a risky thing and if you don’t try and take some, you could end up risking the place of safety you’ve returned to. Which is somewhat ironic. In order to protect your safe place, you have to do things that will put you at risk, like jumping into a pond while not knowing what will happen if you do. In doing so, you can find yourself in a new, potentially beautiful place. Maybe even a place that makes you feel safer than where you were.
Some times you need to take risks to protect your safe place. Which is easier to do when you feel safe and comfortable. You can live with the consequences of your actions. Hopefully, your safe place includes people who are part of that comfort. Ideally, these people are your family members, as they can have a profound impact on how safe your place can be. Those who will help you when the world seems like it’s too risky. Doing things alone can make things worse.
The Way Home is very much about what it means to find a safe place for when the world seems too risky. Alice Dhawan, as played by Sadie Laflamme-Snow, has had her world turned upside down. She no longer has a safe place to go, or at least she thinks she doesn’t. In reality she has her mother and grandmother to give her a safe place to go. At the same time, she doesn’t feel entirely safe when she gets to her grandmother’s home. She needs to find a way to move into a safer place emotionally if she’s going to see it as a safe place. Where she doesn’t need to worry so much and it gives her the security to take risks again. Try new things and find out whether they will work out.
It’s an important thing to have. Sadly not all of us have it but we spend time trying to find it all the same.
Do yourself a favour and explore the importance of having a safe place by checking out The Way Home as soon as you can.
You can watch The Way Home on Hallmark in the United States and W Network in Canada.