Holiday!!!

Ok, get this, I started this blog in March - yes MARCH 2007 - and have never finished it. So, I have again been bitten by the “blog bug” along with a friend of mine, and here I am!!! So this particular post I started back in March, have a read: (problem is, I didn’t finish it so it ends abruptly, sorry … )



Well, I have recently had some stress in my life. Unemployment and unhappiness can make you do crazy things, so on the spur of a moment two weeks ago, at ten to five on a Tuesday afternoon I booked a plane ticket to Namibia - to fly the following afternoon.

I hadn't seen any of the people there in at least eight years, had only spoken to them on the internet, and so that Tuesday evening as I ran around like crazy packing and trying to organise my life, it seemed so surreal. I hardly slept that night, all these crazy things going through my head, like "What are you doing? You could be going to visit a mass murderer ... "

Well, maybe not that bad lol, but my Mum was in a flat panic, and I can only imagine what was going through her head! She did mention to me at one point that my darling older brother had flatly said that she shouldn't allow me to go. My Mum did have to point out that she could hardly tell her twenty-four year old daughter to go to her room and stay there ...

So the next day, I got on a train at Wokingham Station, leaving my life, my boyfriend and my family behind me. I got told to go off on holiday, sort my head out and for once not to worry about anyone else. I think I may have taken this a little too literally!

I sat on that train on my way to Gatwick Airport, realising that for the first time in eight years I was doing something completely on my own, something completely crazy, and I absolutely loved it. I cannot explain the feeling. I have come to the conclusion that people forget to live, and doing crazy things makes you feel like you're living.

Well, I had a ten hour flight to Windhoek, and I didn't sleep at all. I had a window seat, so that was all very well and good, until the girl next to me took a sleeping tablet and passed out and I couldn't move for the rest of the trip as every time I did I had to climb over her, which isn't particularly easy in economy when you hardly have room to move at the best of times anyway lol. I plugged in the old iPod, and ran the batteries flat for the rest of the night.

At some point, I opened the little window thingy next to me to see what was going on outside, and got to see the most amazing sight ever. I don't think I will ever forget that sight.

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And that is as far as I got, sorry! I think I have lost the whole enthusiasm for this particular blog, but I do remember what I saw looking out of that plane window that night. We were flying over the clouds, and below they looked just like the purest and most beautiful cotton wool, and then hanging right over us, looking close enough to touch, was the Milky Way. I sat there and stared for hours, the only way I can explain it is that when you have moments like that you really feel closer to God.

Well anyway, maybe one day I will feel like elaborating on my holiday and what happened, but that time isn’t now. My life did however, change completely, I left my boyfriend, moved away from Reading, got a new job, the works, so I am still convinced that doing that simple crazy thing was one of the best things that I have ever done in my life. It hasn’t been easy, but that’s not always bad.

So, now that I am living in a different place, have a different job, have a new boyfriend, and a whole new life plan, I will get back into writing again!