I feel like I really belong when I go hiking with my friends. Just to feel a sense of connection with each other and
with nature as well. 

I feel like I belong in my roller derby league - historically
it's been a place for people who don't necessarily feel like they fit that well
into mainstream society so it's always kind of had a culture of being really
open, really supportive. 

For me especially when I was younger where I felt like I really belonged was when I was reading
- in the world of books and stuff. You belong to the world of the characters that you're involved in and you feel
like you're a part of them going on a journey with them. 

My parents are from Afghanistan and they came around twenty-five years ago and so did all their their siblings
and so I have a whole community of aunts and uncles and all my cousins. We grew up
together, we went on holidays together.

We have this close bond. When you belong you feel like you can count on people

It seems really cheesy to say this but I feel like I belong to the human race.

We're all different and we're all you know different ages, different sexes,
different colors and but we all seem to sort of they all seem to need the same thing. 

I'm half Middle Eastern. I grew up by the beach on the Central Coast and I know for a while there
especially when the Cronulla riots happened in all of that it was considered a place that wasn't really for us. 

But with my experience at the beach, I always felt like it was a place for everyone. There's so many people there
from all different backgrounds coming from all over the world just to see Australia's beaches. 

I feel like I belong in general just in the snow like I do a lot of a lot of skiing and that sort of thing, there's a sense of serenity in
that sort of natural environment. I look to my friends and I think of how I'm most proud of the fact that we can come from all these different places we can
have such a wide variety of heritage and histories but we can come together and have an appreciation for each other a love for one another.

Belonging to me feels like I'm accepted.