Safe

There is a certain gait in a person's stride when their path is bound for home.

Our life is full of attachements that we form over time. The longer the connection, the stronger the attachement.
Home is such an attachement which many of us could not do without.
It is our connection back, to our roots and to our sphere of comfort. Where one would come back to for a lung full of quiet respite.

The journey back is a chance to review your life, the deeds done and the deeds missed. The quests conquered and the times laughed. The moments of stress and anguish; there to haunt you into a lesson learnt.
Although it is not the last journey one will make; it is a checkpoint in life, like an auto save where you can come back to in the future to find yourself. Hence our happy gaiting stride showing our joy to be home bound, overflowing smiles and tender thoughts.
You are home finally, grown up a little more and unmaimed.

You are safe, and that's all that matters