Belonging & Becoming

I am on a quest to research and reflect on what these ‘B’s mean.

Not just to me, but to us all.

By choice or by force, we are engaging with others who are different from us at a more frequent rate.

Several factors contribute to this.

Especially travel.

By choice or by force.

There are those who migrate to some place new

(by choice, or by force)

In these new spaces,

Do they belong?

Who will they become?

Then there are those who host new people in their space-

(by choice, or by force)

Some feel that they no longer belong.

Defensively, they draw lines, choosing who belongs and who doesn’t.

They construct ceilings that suffocate, limiting the heights to what one can become.

Others accommodate and adapt.

They expand their minds and open the doors to their homes.

They erase the lines, or at least make them more porous and permeable.

There’s so much more to this…

(I’m curious, who are you in this?)

Anyway, here’s to belonging and becoming!

I am Amitia, you are too.