Where do you consider home?

I have a hard time answering this question. I’m never in one place for too long, which makes it difficult to answer. My residence (where I’m only at to sleep and shower), is in Sabillasville. My school is in downtown Frederick. I work in Thurmont, and I spend a majority of my free time in Baltimore or D.C.

I've been spending my twilight years between youth and adulthood traveling a lot, thinking of places I'll live after college. I don't know if this is to help me find a place to call home or not. I guess wherever you are, as long as you're happy, that's home.

Dividing my time between so many different areas causes a surreal feeling. There is an attachment and a disconnect. Where do you call home when you’re never home? I have emotional attachments to so many places in Maryland and across the east coast, but to call a place home, I guess that depends on your definition of home. And I think my problem is I don't have a concrete definition of what home is.

Home is a lot of different things to me. It is so much more than the roof you sleep under at night or where you go to after work. Home is wherever you are, with whoever you're close with. Last Thursday I was at a diner in south Philly with some friends at 12:30 in the morning. There, in that moment, I was home. Once a week when I'm at a concert shouting along to my favorite song in a room with hundreds of strangers, that's home for a few hours.

I've always thought (and still do) that the phrase "Home is where the heart is" was just some cliche that makes Hallmark and county stores money, but as time goes by, I guess there is some truth to it.

So, where do you consider home?