home doesnt just mean home

I'll be honest, for a couple years now, I've had no clue what home even means. In my lifetime, ive lived in/stayed in over 30 houses (including trailers, apartments, etc.) It's hard to really be sure what home is when you're in a situation like I'm in. If you look in a dictionary, there are several different definitions and usages for the word "home." It only makes sense that one such as me would then become confused. Which home is mine of all these "homes"? I spent quite some time trying to figure it out for myself and determine what and where I call home. Unfortunately, I failed to come up with an answer. I found this definition, which also happens to be the first one you read in almost any dictionary online or in a book.

home hōm/ noun
1.
the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.

That is, of course, until they movie out and get a home of their own. Which then the word "home" becomes there own.

I do feel that this definition is logical and very correct, but it doesn't stand for all people. Especially not for me. I hear the saying "Home is where the heart is" a lot, and I guess that makes sense. But what if you don't know where your heart is? And don't necessarily know how to find out where it is? So, that's when I look to the other multiple definitions of the word home. Like I said, I couldn't find one that worked. But I did find one that I like a lot better than any of the others. It can stand for so much more and mean greater things than "where one lives permanently." Which was this:

home: a place where something flourishes, is most typically found, or from which it originates.

That definition instantly made me feel like I had finally found a way to call a place home and mean it. Its easy to just go ahead and say home. But whats your meaning behind the word when you say "home?" Mine is honesty still a hard one for me, but I'd just have to say the residence in which im staying right now is my home (wheren I am flourishing and most typically found).