What Does Home Mean?

What does home mean? I think there are a lot of different opinions. Of course, home is different for everybody. For me, home has many different parts like how it feels emotionally (and how it feels physically, obviously). My home feels like a safe space, where I’m not judged, and where my family is there to catch me when I fall. If I used the five senses to describe it, I would say that it feels like my soft fleece sheets when I crawl into bed at night. It tastes like spaghetti, because that's what we eat a lot, even though it sounds like it would get boring. Home sounds like my dad playing board games with his friends and listening to music downstairs. It looks like my living room, with our comfy couch, coffee table that’s always cluttered, but looks lovely when it’s all tidied up, and our big window that I stare through to tell whenever the guests we are expecting get there. It smells like our christmas tree we get around the holiday season, which reminds me of Christmas, when I don’t have a single worry in the world. The house where you live doesn’t have to be your home. If I lived in a landfill, and my family was there, the landfill would be my home (but it definitely would not smell good). Home is the place that many people spend their lives trying to improve, whether that be renovating their house, redecorating it, or just strengthening bonds in their family. The important thing to know is that your home might change. You might lose someone, move houses, make new friends, but you shouldn’t be afraid of change, you should embrace it. Your home is wherever you feel safe and loved.