09.11.2018- On Belonging
Belonging is a strange old feeling, and one which is almost impossible to define in anything more specific that your own personal experience. Whether it's feeling at home in your own skin, and being perfectly content to be in one particular place above all others, it's s tricky nut to crack, and one which you only really come to appreciate when you've found it completely. Up until recently, I'd never really thought all that much about how my own sense of belonging is bound up in geographical location as much as anything else, but having mused on it in a little bit more detail, I've realised that home doesn't necessarily always have to be the place where you feel that you most belong. I've lived in the same place all my life, and the stability that the sunny Surrey suburbs offers is absolutely ideal. At almost 29, it's been the bedrock of my upbringing, and unless something radical happens to property prices or my salary in the immediate future, I can...