During the Easter break I was fortunate enough to be able to travel back home to spend it with family and friends. I knew how different life was in both my homes, Noosa and Melbourne, but it wasn’t until I actually went back to Noosa after moving to down here that I realised actually how different the lifestyles of the places really are. They both portray such different things and feelings and can shape you to be such different people. When living in Noosa I was very body conscious and cared very much so how I looked, just because that is how EVERYONE (well a majority) is there. I know that body image, especially in women, is a huge topic always in the media, but I just find it so sad that people in that lifestyle care so much about how you look, and you have to have the ‘perfect’ body or have to be skinny to be a good person. At first glance they literally do not care what you are like as a person they just care about what you look like. Now I must be honest, I was once trapped into this mindset too, but it wasn’t until moving away from that that I realised there is so much more to people and to life. I mean I always knew this, but you do get sucked in to this way of thinking when it is ALL around you. Once I moved away I was able to let loose a little and not care so much about how I looked and not be sucked in to that silly, judgemental and self-damaging mindset that people get into, which I very much think is a huge part of the ‘beach culture’.