Wandering Nomad

There is a certain charm though to being in a new city and having the privilege of experiencing everything with unfiltered awe. None of that cynicism that will surely creep in very soon. Miles away from my tiny hometown in Singapore, London is so vastly different, yet comfortably similar in many ways. I’ve taken to wandering the streets of London, peering into cafes and windows and just observing, almost Nick Caraway-esq the melody of life and soft orchestration that poeple play out about their day. Its a special little window of time, when you are not yet a part of the whole routine and still on the outskirts, and I just love the calm clarity that time brings. So much life relections and internal thought debates that will later seem irrelevant once routine and normalcy takes over. So for now, an odd sense of peace, and just living life moment by moment, taking calm notice of the new energy buzzing around and getting a hang of the way life unfolds in my new home.

London has been everything I expected and then some. Buzzing and alive and such a refreshing change. I’m still taking it all in one day at a time and so far i’m pretty happy. It might be too early to say but i really think i can see myself living here. Its a strange feeling when a new place begins to feel so comfortable its almost homely? All the little things you do at home like stoping to buy groceries or just that mad run out for junk food doesnt normally happen when you’re someplace new, at least not for me, but little wisps of normalcy are slowly starting to creep in and make Charming old Londontown that much more of a home rather than a place I’ve somehow found myself in.

From the busy, decidedly hipster streets of Clerkenwell to the tourists hotspots in Oxford and Nottinghill, London is slowly but surely unwrapping itself, almost like a hidden box of treasure, luring me into its charm and hypnotising quirks. There is always something to do, somewhere to go, someplace and someone to see and its the journey of it all that holds the most value.

"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place." - Miriam Adeney