Perthyn
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"For years, I didn't feel that I belonged anywhere." Owain Rhys's digital story made during the Aberystwyth DS2 Mobile Phone workshop.
Transcript
"I've always been interested in the power of words. 'Perthyn' is a Welsh word meaning "to belong". For years, I didn't feel that I belonged anywhere.
Having recently become a father, I have started to think more about why we're here, and where we're going.
Births, getting married, and the death of loved ones are the milestones by which we remember the roads we have travelled.
Although I don't believe in a religious god, I believe in an indefinable something, which manifests itself in light shining through a window, a line of poetry, the beauty of purple, or the love felt by a father for his son.
When I start thinking too much, I go for a pint at the pub in Talgarreg, the village where my wife is from. That's where I feel most at home.
We'd like to move back to Talgarreg, where we can give our son a home, and, hopefully, a place to belong."
Your comments
"This story is a part of another person life and it's very touching."
Auri, from Brazil"I think that this short little story is very touching and that I also think that I want to write on here to then, now."
Gabby Farly from Ohio."It was a story that was interstingly told through digital storytelling. It would not have had the same impact if it were just told."
Gita Kokoschko from Adelaide, Australia.
