Those Who Wander Are Not Lost... A Passing Thought - 11.09.2019.

I used to be terrified of cities.
Big old things, gloomy, dark, smoke filled monsters that would gobble you up and spit you out.
Incomprehensible transport systems that were like nerve-centres of the beast and confused and perplexed in equal measure.
People all staring at the ground or dead-eyed directly ahead but always avoiding eye contact or any kind of connection to their fellow man.
Then...
I visited this city called Edinburgh and just walked the streets until the lonely, early hours, alone with music soundtracking my treks, and now, I have a newfound appreciation and love of cities.
London unfolded its secrets every time I visited, Birmingham became a labyrinth of new thrills and joy, even Leicester (where I now live) became a maze of beauty and beguiling discovery.

Every-time I visit Birmingham or London, even to areas I have been a million times, I discover wonderful new additions or strange, unique little shards of life in places I never knew existed.
Today my girlfriend is in a nine hour exam, one that could determine her future and the entire course of her next decade of life - and I am just walking around, no plan, nowhere I need to be, and I am just breathing in the life and the world around me and I am smiling, wide and toothy.
This is a brilliant country we have. Some amazing places, some incredible sights and sounds and smells and sensations are conjured by the people and the architecture and the history and the glances of the future fast approaching.
I know things are a bit crazy right now, but whenever darkness starts to slip in, something amazing happens to drag us back to normality again, or, sometimes into a beautiful new dimension of supernormal, extraordinary brilliance.
I’m feeling positive - despite all the negativity and gloom on the TV and across the news...
I hope that we find our potential and become as great as I think we can be... not just us Brits, but humans in general.
Until we know for sure what is coming I know I have these little forays into the world around and with the friends and family who I love and these random adventures that will always be there, and forever evolve around us.

Today...
It’s going to be a brilliant day.

I promise.

There’s a magic in the air and it wants you to know it has your back.

Let it in.
Just let that magic in.