Sarah | Takapuna
“I think it was probably the birth of my nephew.
He was born this year in August, and I think it was mostly a new, a new feeling of love, because it was a love for not myself or someone that is the same age as me, or someone I’m attracted to or something. That’s so superficial in, you know, maybe visually, what we call love. It’s something that is a love that’s ingrained in us, and something that is so deep-seated in who we are and it’s something that’s so beautiful to see; the birth of a child, really.
I don’t think you can say it’s one certain type of love, or you’re meant to feel a certain thing, or this is how it is, this is the rule book of what love is. I think personally from what I felt, in that moment, it was like an explosion of emotions that makes you feel almost one with that person. So, in that moment when I witnessed the birth of Leo, my nephew, it was something that overtook you, and you do, I did cry, and I did feel love, and I felt happiness, and I felt excitement. I think it was something that made me maybe even love myself even a little bit more, because I got to, you know, witness something else like that. I think in love; is it, you can love that person, but also maybe it makes you feel better, or maybe it makes you love yourself more, or maybe it brings something else to you that you didn’t know you had before, you know, to feel love.
I grew up in Red Beach, and then I went and lived in Coatesville, and now my parents live in Takapuna. I do research for AUT, and I think it’s really important to kind of give education and kind of support educating our youths. I just like to give back in any way that, how can we teach others or improve other people’s lives, or how can we transfer our skills into the next generation, or how can we change their perspective.”
