When most of us think of home, we think of where we lay our head at night. We think of where we cook dinner, watch our shows, or play with our dogs on the living room floor. We might even think of a town where we spent our younger years, where our feet turned black from playing outside, where we went to school or learned to ride our bike. We might think of the place where we want to be laid to rest, underneath the grass with a headstone gleaming in the sunlight. For some reason, a lot of us want to think that home is walls on foundation, settled in the woods or the city or wherever you've decided to be.
But home doesn't have to be a place.
It can be blue eyes hidden behind feathery hair. It can be someone's hand holding yours on a winters day. It can be a hug early in the morning while you're making the first cup of coffee for the day. It can be a rapid pulse vibrating under your finger tips. It can be a smile in the dark when you should have been asleep hours ago, but you can't stop giggling or telling stories.
It can be thousands of people bundled together, screaming their lungs out when the lights go down and the music starts blaring. It can be a Saturday in the Fall, a pigskin flying through the air. It can be the bubbling of a creek in the middle of the woods, with the only other sound being a bird chirping somewhere off to your right. It can be a song on the radio, making you cry or dance along behind the wheel. It can be the rush you feel when you're doing something that makes you happy.
Home can be a feeling, an emotion you feel, or even a person. Home isn't necessarily a place with four walls and a front door. It's just something that makes you feel safe. It's the steady hand you need when the world feels shaky. It's what makes you smile when things are hard, and helps keep you going when you just can't fathom going forward. It's, quite simply, whatever you want it to be. You can make your home a person, or a place, or a feeling in your chest.
Home can be anything, from a song, a band, a feeling, or even a person, but it certainly doesn't have to be a place.
