Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.
But maybe it’s the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both?
You can find fulfillment in your work, work with all your heart.
There is a great fulfillment when you commit your life to lifelong learning.
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.