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What is home, anyway?

I feel like I am living my life in a perpetual state of limbo.   Pretty much since I graduated from uni in fact. 10 years ago.    I moved back in with my family for 2 years, which I knew wasn’t permanent, then moved to London into rented accommodation for 6 years   - the same house but an ever revolving door of new housemates.   I couldn’t afford to buy anywhere, and if I could I wouldn’t know where to live anyway – I didn’t want to live in London forever and for me it’s important to place my roots somewhere I have friends around – for me, friends make an area feel like home.   Then I moved to New Zealand with no real plans, decided I wanted to stay, had to apply and wait for visas, not knowing if I would be sent back to the UK which was a very weird feeling – not knowing if a country would let you stay there or not.   But luckily New Zealand decided it wanted me after all and granted me residency.   Now I have managed to fall in love with a boy who’s job it is to travel the world.