We all belong here.

I wanted to submit a voice recording to this project as I feel like I could share my most authentic and vulnerable self, without planning it out. In saying this, I do ramble a bit. The recording goes for about 10 minutes and I hope you find it helpful in your journey.
- Love anonymous

Family , cousins, friends.
Seems like your social interactions , will never , end .
When you leave school, to stay in touch is no , rule .
Days spent , trying to distract, from the sadness of no friends to interact with .
Some people are , only using social media to connect , catching up face -to face , is something real they , need to accept .
Too , much on for people , too much for people to do .
The , loneliness therefore , affects you .

Loneliness is expressed as a feeling of being alone or disconnected from others. For me, loneliness is sometimes being able to be by myself and collect my thoughts. There are times that feeling is a feeling of sadness and not being able to spend time with others due to conflicting schedules.
The outside facade can be colourful but inside it could be darker colours (negative like black). Music can express those emotions.

In my first year of uni, moving across the country from New Zealand to Australia, it was a very scary and nerve-racking experience for me, especially leaving home and family for the first time, as I am someone who is very family-oriented and very close to my family. Even though my 2 best mates from high school also decided to move to Melbourne with me and the 3 of us all attending the University of Melbourne, I think we were all trying to make new connections, try new things, and meet new people. But I felt lonely because I felt like I had not found my group of people that I vibe with, and it felt like everyone around me already had a friend group.

On instagram, all I would see are people hanging out, going on trips together, and I just felt that I never had that. Living at a residential college away from my old friends, we drifted a bit, and while I made new friends living at a college who were so kind and lovely, I always felt like I wasn’t completely myself and I didn’t really fit in. It was something that I felt like no one really understood and I felt really alone about, because I was surrounded by people, but I still felt really alone.

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I wrote this song about my first “true” heartbreak. It explores the emotions and complexity of love from a particularly chaotic standpoint, caught in a battle of decisions with no clear answer. Is there peace in moving on? Is there courage in fighting to preserve? Will she open the door for me again?
*This song has some explicit words which are not censored. Take care when listening.*