what i call home

       Home, a noun, the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household. The  legitimate definition is not what I actually see as home. My big yellow house on top on that six foot high wall is not what I see as home. Yes, that house is where I'm most comfortable, but it isn't "home". That house is where my memories were made, where I grew up. I have memories of our annual pig roast when all my family members come over, I have memories of my sisters and I playing bus driver, or my all time favorite is playing pirates and burying treasure to find later-which was just a plastic bag of Chuck-E-Cheese coins- with my sister and the little boy next door who I still call my brother. I also do not have a single home. My definition of home will vary to when I am happiest. Over the summer I found home to be driving around in my grandpa mobile blaring and harmonizing to "Dazed and Confused" or my all time favorite "Marvin Gaye" with my best friends. Or our long car rides to the beach where we'd have heart to hearts about boys, work, or even just about absolutely anything. That is where I'm happy when I am with my friends but I also find home to be with my family. My family is the best. We can have fun anywhere you put us. We can squeeze into a small one bed room apartment and we all sit in a circle and eat our meatball subs when we come back from apple picking. Or on a hot summer day we all go to my uncle's pool or we all pack up for the weekend and go to the cape for a weekend. But lately I've found happiness by laying in bed on the phone with my best friend that I also get to call my boyfriend, whose two states away. If I'm ever having a bad day he'll tell me some of his corny jokes or make goofy helicopter noises at me. No matter the bad day I'm having I know I have him and my friends and family to put a smile on my face, make me feel welcome. To make me feel at home. Physical objects shouldn't be what has enough of your energy for you to call home. Home is where you're surrounded by love and where you're most happy.