Put into Perspective

Hello there! I’m sorry I’ve not written in a while, I always used to be terrible at regularly keeping a diary as well, but it’s been tough to find time to sit down and write. I’ve been here 2 weeks now, and I’ve pretty much settled into a routine (a very busy one), though it’s very new and different from how my last 18 and a half years have been, I’m enjoying this new chapter. Living in a city can be really mind blowing (for other reasons than the regularity of the public transport), Its really weird to see so many different people every day and realise; that they’re all individuals and they all have a life. It’s great at putting life into perspective. This is not a completely new concept to me and I’m sure it won’t be to you either, but living in a big city really visualizes the scale of it. Standing on a packed bus or in tube carriage being surrounded by all those people, each of whom has their own: day-to-day lives, their own relationships, their own joys and their own struggles.  It’s amazing to thoroughly consider that sobering thought about two lives crossing paths, for that brief moment, maybe the person who bumped into you on a crowded street or the person who let you on the bus before them, or the person who pushed in-front of you. Perhaps it’s a regular brief encounter, my current favorite of these is the man who lives a couple of doors down from me and we pass most mornings at 8.20am as I’m on my way to the bus and he’s walking his dog, we both are usually eating a banana for breakfast. I don’t know his name, or his story and he doesn’t know mine, but we say “good morning” to each other and just for that moment two lives cross. You might think I’m crazy for finding this so fascinating, but it reminds me that I’m only one person in a city with the popualtion of 8.3 million, and a world population of 7.2 billion and each one of those is a human with their own life and their own story. The link below is to a world clock, which depicts the true scale of things. Just something to think about. Ihttp://www.worldometers.info/world-population/