"Where are you from?"
"Oh I’m just from around here, Ngaruawahia."
"Yeah but where are you FROM?"
"Well.. I grew up in Auckland?"
"No, I mean where are you originally from?"

For some, that may be a question asked in innocence. For me, that is a question that I will be asked for the rest of my life. When I meet someone new, when I go for job interviews, when I stand here today. It makes me feel like I...

I thought that day would be as typical as any other. Little did I know. I never knew a slight conversation with this one boy could change my perspective on life around me.

I saw him sitting on the green graffitied school bench. The bolts of the bench were rusted from the rain and there was purposely peeled paint on the floor. Surprisingly, he was alone. When he noticed the sound of my footsteps and crisp crunching leaves, he immediately...

Depression is something that we feel, something that we heal and something that we have to deal with. It comes and goes. But there will be a day...

One point in your life it will stay. It will eat you alive on the inside, snap your heart in half and take control of your brain. Moments from your past will flash back and be your present. You'll be surrounded with regret. Unexplained scenarios will run through your mind, bit by...