Personal Credo - Matthew

To Matthew, home is where the heart is: “It’s a sense of defining what is important to us, a centering point of view that there is somewhere that at the end of the day and if all goes to hell there’s home.”

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What is important is home. This isn’t in the sense of thinking of it in every minute of the day or thinking of it even once a day but it allows one a comfort and security that there is somewhere to fall back on, somewhere that you can call home, somewhere that you can rely upon. You can centre yourself around and this. It can form itself into sense of security. You can feel a sense of love, or you can just know that the worst year of your life has just come about, but you can reset yourself. You can begin again. It is that sense of home and steadfastness that is by far the most important.

So many people will take a view of something immediate – something that affects them presently – rather than on a deeper sense. It’s all well and good thinking of the thing that is most pressing in every second of the day, and that is the most important, but it’s the thing to detach yourself from your reality – whether that be change your country or change your vocation or…. I can be at some events and find food and drink, fine wine, but equally I’m very happy as I’ve experienced being in the depths of Africa with no running water no electricity and no connection to the outside world other than what you can get on horseback. At that point I’m going back to my original point of what’s important to me. It’s a sense of defining what is important to us, a centering point of view that there is somewhere (like this) that at the end of the day and if all goes to hell there’s home.