C17 SEVENTEEN

Live or Stay

ROSE

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Dear Diary,

A ‘walkabout’ originally referred to a rite of passage undertaken by male Australian Aborigine where they'd live in the wilderness for as long as six months and reconnect to their ancestors.

We're not Australian, or Aborigine, and most of us aren't even male