Andrew 

Australian in Japan

 

I’ve always believed that home is where you feel you belong. It’s a place where you feel comfortable just being yourself. When I met my now wife Ayaka I realized that I found that place. I first traveled to Japan not knowing where I was heading in life. It was my first time to live overseas and my first big adventure out of “home”. As cliché as it sounds meeting and falling in love with Ayaka I started to feel whole. I felt that I belonged and I was comfortable just being me. I had found the person who I could complete and that completed me. She is the person who I know I can share all of life’s ups and downs with, all laughter and all tears and great obsession with the works of Disney and Ghibli! Bizarrely, I think that to really find “home” you have to step out from what you find comfortable. You need to take a risk, and find the parts of yourself you never knew existed. Then you’ll find the place where you really belong.