city lights and late nights
“I want to move to London.” is my default answer when people ask me what my shorter term life goals are. “In the next 5 years, I want to move to London.” In the next 5 years I'll hopefully be freshly graduated from some university in the middle of nowhere Canada, with a bachelors diploma in something science/math. 4 years of scraping together money from summer jobs and savings, enough to uproot my life and move to one of the most expensive cities in the world.
An aspect of this desire I am trying to understand is: do I really want to move across the world, or am I just at a point in my life where I really want to move out. Out and away from the house I've lived in for 13 years. I feel suffocated in the normality and monotony of the city I’ve lived in for almost my entire life. Moving away from my parents more downtown would certainly allow me to see the city in a new light, to explore different aspects, areas, and to find new and amazing communities and cultures in my home city. But on the other hand, the desire of being able to disappear into a crowd of people, in a city across the world prevails in my heart, and overtakes my mind (my roman empire, one might say). I visited this summer, and ever since, I can’t quite pinpoint why I am so infatuated with the idea of living in London. Am I just being dramatic? It would be a huge change, I wouldn't know anyone, I wouldn't know my surroundings, I'd be alone. In a city of almost 10 million people. But maybe that's part of it. Part of the allure. I cannot get the idea out of my head. But then again, maybe I’m just impulsive and like a good public transit system.
To wrap up my thoughts, I wanna quickly discuss the TFL, or Transit for London. When I was in London I went on most of the underground tube lines, including: Hammersmith and City, Elizabeth, District, Circle, Central, Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee, Metropolitan lines, and NRS. I sadly did not have time for the DLR, Waterloo and City (its tiny), Victoria, or Picadilly lines. I really like the London Underground :3
Who knows, maybe in five years I'll be living in London. Maybe I wont be. Right now it's a dream, and it's good to have dreams.