Home. The word itself just brings comfort. Since I have moved to 13 different houses in my lifetime, I have realized that a person can have multiple homes. When you move to college, you make new friends, and you create a new life for yourself. That city or that state becomes your home. But then there is the home that you left, the city that you grew up in, the friends from high school. And then, for the movers, there is a different kind of home. Home is wherever your family is. For me, I find comfort in the fact that when I am away or when I am missing home, I know that home is always waiting for me too.

After moving back and forth semester after semester, I think it is important to realize the true meaning of home. It might not be a place for you; it might be a person or a idea. For me, my heart believes that home is three things: wherever my mommy is, school and Disney World. By putting a place, a name or a face to the word "home," I think that anyone can find comfort at any time. Whether it's the scared freshman embarking on a new adventure or the recent college grad moving three states away, the word "home" or the idea of "home" can give us the push we need to accomplish the new tasks in front of us. With the start of a new school year, and this one being my last, I have started to wonder about where my home will be. Will I move states? Will I stay in my hometown? The unknown makes me sit and ponder. Of course, I go into complete panic mode when I realize that I have no freaking clue what might happen between now and graduation. I don't know if my plans will work out the way I hope, and that, my friends, scares the mess out of me. But what I have realized is that no matter where this crazy path calls life leads me, I know that "home" will always be my comfort, pushing me along.

There is also comfort is knowing that the word home does not end. For those of us who believe in life after life on earth, I think it is magnificent that we can find comfort in the fact that the loved ones we have lost are waiting for us at our forever home. What a glorious day it will be when everyone is reunited in our forever home someday.

So no matter where your path leads you and where your "home" may be, just know that know matter how far away you go, home will always be waiting for your return. It may be a door leading you into a glimpse of the past, a far-off place that you love so dearly, or simply a loved one's warm embrace. The memory or the destination will always be there, pushing you along, helping you create that brighter tomorrow.