To my knowledge, a square is a 4 sided shape, with 4 equal angles of 90deg, one attribute which King George Square does not posses. My origins are of the Batak Tribe of the Philippines. I was born of a community largely isolated from modern society, of which only a small number remain. As a child, I was taught basic survival tools, and learnt to live off the land. It is the way of our people. It is what connects us with the earth. It is what makes us who we are and where we will return when our physical bodies no longer serve our minds soul. At merely 6 years of age, retrieving fish from the river, I came across an object in the river's bed, what then seemed to me as a symbol of perfection, a state of nirvana, a key-way into a dimension and reality i never knew existed, yet always longed for. I stumbled across what I now know as a square. From this moment, I was awaken. 26 excruciating years led me to learn to speak, read and write, to walk upright, to understand my surroundings in an intellectual manner, to blend in with what is considered today's modern society and make a life for myself. This moment, my entire existence to the point in time which I type this sentence, the struggle, the pain, the indescribable feeling of conquer in achieving a state of being I'd never known could've existed through natural progression in my former environment, was a manifestation driven by the motivation to once more see with my own pure awoken eyes this magical shape.

To finally arrive to Brisbane, Australia, a country which i had never known existed, let alone knew how to pronounce, spell, or comprehend in the most basic of elemental senses, and see "King George Square", not even a square?

1 star you fking cts