/həʊm/
noun
1. relating to the place where one lives, or a place where a person feels they belong

Home is somewhere you feel like you truely belong. The past years journeys of self discovery has provoked a lot of thought into where I belong. Sydney? Melbourne? New Zealand? If you asked me right now, I still wouldn’t be able to give you a decisive answer.

For a boy from the western suburbs of Sydney, a respectable job and ownership of a house is ultimate dream. We are taught from a young age how important it is to buy a home. Owning a home, although hard, is not impossible at my age; if you spend conservatively and save consistently, you will have enough for a deposit house/20 year burden.
So you buy a house, probably further out west than your parents currently live, you continue working you so-so job and you get hella high/pissed on the weekend for the next 5 years all while you continue paying off your home. During this whole time you’ve probably never even thought about whether your hometown is truely the place you want to settle down for the rest of your life; even if you do, you’ve already got too much long term commitments to go about your soul searching.

The common conception is that a respectable job and property ownership is what defines an individuals wealth. Although both are wholly true, the the community in which you acquire desirable no.1 & 2 is of utmost importance in my opinion. You can never reach your true potential in life without feeling truely at home.
How do you know you truely belong to a society if your current community is the only community you’ve lived in?
I do not plan on growing old only knowing what life was like in one corner of the world. I refuse to be sitting in a RSL 50 years from now on bingo night explaining to the youngsters about how the local shops looked so different in my time... That's so sad and totally not me lol

I hope I can answer all of my unanswered questions and share my journey with you in the coming weeks/months/years.