A place where we can just be ourselves

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“Someone to love; something to do; something to hope for.” This existential triptych – of uncertain provenance, but with roots back to Kant – is said to provide the key to happiness. I’d humbly add a fourth element: somewhere to be.

By which I don’t mean a place to live, one of life’s necessities, but rather somewhere away from home where you can just be. A place that requires nothing of you, but where you can feel connected to something bigger than your immediate existence. Typically now known as “third spaces” – neither home nor work – such places enable........

© The Sydney Morning Herald