To most people, a weekend trip to London would be exciting... a little bit of a change... maybe quite educational. But to me, a weekend trip to London has left me questioning everything, it's left me scared, depressed, motivated and most of all, it's made me feel hopeful.
London is filled with hopes and dreams (amongst about 30 million Union jacks and 40 million postcards).
My mini holiday included visiting a couple for dinner who resided in the most beautiful home. They were successful in their jobs, and it seemed that they were always surrounded by friends and dinner parties; they even bought their cats Tesco's Finest cat food.
I felt this sensation deep in my stomach, and something told me it wasn't the chick pea puree they had laid out. It was dissatisfaction, it was yearning. Not that their beautiful food hadn't filled me, but I knew that going back home wouldn't be good enough for me anymore.
Needless to say, I obviously left London due to insufficient funds and a train ticket I couldn't have wasted.
London is unbelievably busy, it's smelly and dirty in places, and so many people bumped into me on the street that I have actual bruising. but I loved every second of it. I thrived off it. No one looked average, everyone looked interesting, beautiful, or really really ugly. It was so exciting, I don't know how anyone can settle for anything less.
I know that people who live there would say 'what's the big deal? I'm used to London', but I don't think I could ever get accustomed to such a City. London felt like the centre of the world to me. And reading a newspaper whilst I was there was weird, as pretty much everything mentioned was taking place in London.
If there was any way to describe the word 'life', it would be the streets of our wonderful Capital.
I think that I could be happy simply roaming the streets on London all day, just taking in the beauty, the people from all over the world, the amazing architecture.
And I got a free Chinese newspaper, where else in England can you get one of them!?
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