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“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Most people, when asked about the word home, contort a complete picture in their minds of their meaning for it. Whether it's a person, a place or a thing, people usually have one certainty in their life that they can call home. I on the other hand never had that assurance. When thinking about home, all that comes to my mind is a series of blurry pictures, and a feeling of confusion to go with it. Born in Bahawalpur, but living in the bubble of a community where my dad worked in northern Sindh, I wasn’t sure of the place I was supposed to call home for as long as I can remember. However, too young to care about such a thing, I always considered home to be the place where all my friends were, the place where I went to school, and the place that held all my precious belongings. But soon that thought was changed forever. When I was in year 5, my parents decided to move to Qat...