What is Home?

What is home? If one looks in a dictionary the answer would come out to be, “The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.” However, for anyone who has had an actual home, they would know that such a term goes much beyond its concrete description. It is an impassioned aspect filled with values and foundation of nurturing. A home is not just an abode built to live in; in fact, that is just a definition of a house. Home is a place where one not only feels comfortable, but a place they look forward to opportunely live in every day. A home is built not by bricks or wood, but with the bond of family. A home is a place that reminds a person of countless memories and values when he walks through a corridor of the house, or looks at one of his belongings. On the other hand, a person can move from one house to the next. However, their home remains the same. No matter where they go, people will reminiscence about the one place or a group of people with whom they felt truly content.
A house provides one with shelter from a multitude of things. A home not only offers a roof over your head, but when one returns to their home, they are at utmost peace. No matter how tired or weary they are or what problems they have come in with, a home gives them their own sanctuary. The difference between a house and a home is that a home comes with a sense of belonging. This attribute has a lot to do with the simple sense of feeling safe; wherever a person feels safe, that place becomes the root of a home, whether it is big or small. For instance, in the entire Harry Potter series, Harry believed that his school Hogwarts was his home because it was the one place in the entire world where he felt like he belonged. I...

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...ir biological family. On the contrary, one might be lucky enough to have a home, and then feel ‘at home’ with a group of people or at a place. However, one home is sentimentally above the rest. For the most blessed people, it is the place where they live, with their loved ones.
More than anything, it is a home that is one’s most blissful belonging. It is cherished, irreplaceable, and irrefutable, but without it one will never be complete. A home will always and forever define a person as who they are. Throughout a lifetime, individuals make a lot of decisions; take plenty courses of actions, for one reason: the pursuit of happiness. Whoever has a home knows that they do not have to pursue happiness, they have attained it. One might have many houses throughout lifetime but they will only have one home, where there are people that they share sentimental values with.