Falling in Love With Where I Live

Upon my return to Guernsey, I was struck by an awful realisation - I actually don’t really hate it here anymore. This is a problem because I get off to loudly talking about how much I hate things, in particular living here, and I worry if that changes then part of my identity will be lost.

Perhaps this is one blow to my ego that I will have to grin and bear though, as I will now freely admit that Guernsey is a great place to live in many respects. It’s incredibly safe, surrounded by natural beauty, I can walk everywhere I need to, and my friends and family are by and large on my doorstep. Sure, I have some pretty major unanswered questions about our political system, economic drivers and collective social consciousness, and those are all things worth being concerned about - but perhaps they do not have to outweigh the positives.

It seems the next step may be to try and take action towards improving the things I don’t like, rather than simply whining the whole time.