Today is our third day here in London. My first two days were rough because I was still processing my breakup. As I mentioned in my last blog, there were some things throughout my first two days that kept reminding me of him or made me want to reach out and text him. Although I had the urge, I never did, but rather, I actively focused on being present in the moment. Today was different though. Today was nothing short of a miracle.
Today we went to Buckingham Palace, walked through Hyde Park, ate at the Brompton Food Market, and visited the Victoria & Albert Museum. My favorite part of today was just walking. Although we did and saw some pretty amazing things, we did more walking and standing than we've done this whole trip and it was so therapeutic.
I've always been a physical person. I'm an athlete and when I'm stressed, going to the gym or taking walks have always helped me to clear my mind. Today, pretty much all we did was walk, observe, talk, and laugh. Today was the first day in two years that I did not think about my ex-boyfriend. If given enough time to think, that is typically the first place that my mind would go but today I let my mind wander places that it hadn't gone before.
I wondered about why the band played the Darth Vader theme song during the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace. I analyzed the architecture we passed and thought about how old the structures were. In Hyde Park, I sat on the ground and thought about how beautiful it was outside; the sun was kissing my face for the first time the whole trip. Bianca and I discussed what it would be like to live in London and talked about how comfortable we already were with finding our way around the city. We laughed about the couple that we saw fighting under their breaths in the Victoria & Albert Museum and made up fake reasons why they would be fighting in such a peaceful place.
There is something about this incredible city that makes it so easy to get completely lost in it. I don't mean physically lost, as honestly I feel as though I'm very familiar with my surroundings, but I mean mentally. Mentally, there is constantly something vying for my attention, making my mind go a million different places a minute. I've been to my fair share of cities and London is unlike any other I've ever visited. I don't know what it is for sure. It could be the British accents, the lack of trash, or the fact that everything they do seems so strategic. It could be that they have been around longer than the United States so they just know how to do things better. It could be that everything is so similar to home, yet different. I've tried to wrap my brain around it but I think that's part of the intrigue--there is no one thing that gives London its magic.
No matter what the source, there is no doubt in my mind that London is magical and I was lucky enough to experience its powers firsthand today--it healed me. We walked, observed, talked and laughed our way through the magic and it was one of the best days I had had in a very long time.
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