adhan/ home.

adhan/ home.

reflection.

I spent the entire weekend with my family. my father is muslim and my mother christian. my father comes from a working class background, my mother middle class. my parents are relatively wealthy when compared with their brothers and sisters....there are many other juxtapositions...it's interesting to observe this an an adult...at a time when I feel the most comfortable with who I am.

I currently live in the Bokaap (Cape Town's histroric Malay Quarter) - the place where my great granfather (from india) first settled when he arrived here. This is also where my grandfather was born. I have never felt more at home in this city before. I feel like I belong. Everywhere I look I see a part of my family's history, part of me.

 

03 Comments
 
  1. NguJaz

    beautiful sentiment

  2. Uno

    This would've been an excelent entry for the identity theme.
    I don't know if I'll ever feel like I belong anywhere... was born in Jo'burg, left when I was 2, lived in Maputo for almost 2 years, left to Portugal where I stayed for 10 years, went back to Moz, stayed there for almost 17 years, now I've been living in Cape Town for 4 years... I feel all this cities made me, and all of those space/time dimensions belong to me: as my interpretation, my experiences and way of seeing and understanding also change as I get older so does the relationship with place we call belonging.

  3. sweetoof

    nice insight UP, great picture and story SHY1

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