[I guess now’s as good a time as any to reflect on the last  six months of my life, sitting in Gatwick airport overlooking the airplane that’s just pulled in and waiting to board]
The last six months have brought experiences I know I never imagined, and to put it into words …
choose the right words…
to confine it to only words…
Well, it can’t be done.

You see, most of my dreams came true, the dreams I had for this trip, the dreams that were in my power. The dreams that were within this tangible world and not the highly unlikely fantasy-world that I live in in my head a lot of the time. During my time alone, this imagination has had the chance to run WILD. What I have seen, where I have been, and who I am has been magnified….
all because I have trusted my gut and the process, and life felt right
Until it started to feel wrong
I’m ready to go home because I have maximized this time abroad, and milked it for all it’s worth. I have been referring to it as six months on travel crack! I haven’t been in one place for longer than six weeks and it’s exhilarating, and eventually, exhausting.
I have found a lot, I have learnt to be present and soak up everything around me like a limitless sponge. I have become content in silence and confident in my independence. I have learnt what’s important and what’s not. I have argued with myself, and I have both won and lost the arguments. I have answered many of my difficult questions. And there are even more I haven’t got to yet. But one step at a time I am quietening and fulfilling this complicated and insatiable mind.
I’m coming home refreshed
With a new found belief in myself
I have found confidence in my new story
and the stories I have to tell now that I’ve started to live the way I want to live
I will borrow words that ring true for me, from a song that has been going through my mind all day:
“I’m coming home
I’m coming home
Tell the world I’m coming home
Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
I know my kingdom awaits and they’ve forgiven my mistakes
I’m coming home, I’m coming home
Tell the world that I’m coming
Back where I belong, I never felt so strong
I feel like there’s nothing that I can’t try
And if you with me put your hands high
If you ever lost a light before, this ones for you
And you, the dreams are for you”