Follow the yellow brick road….
I celebrated the weekend with some close friends as it was my birthday. I’m 31! How odd is that?! It feels good, but somewhat strange at the same time, so I’m not sure what to make of it. In my 20’s I actually dreaded hitting my 30’s. So here is the bit I never thought I’d actually say - being 30 actually rocks! I’ve observed one thing amongst most of my friends, and that is during our 20’s we felt we were under a lot of pressure, what with university and getting a career being the main highlights. With those two things in my way I felt my path onwards and upwards was obstructed
However come 30, I’m free! I just don’t give a balls about anything. There’s no pressure well apart from marriage but that can wait! The last two years in my book have been so fun filled and enjoyable that I’m glad I’m at this stage in life. I’ve got the perfect job where I get to travel about a lot and generally abuse my position while at the same time having a lot of responsibility, which is a major confidence builder. A lot of you are wondering that I’m talking a load of bollocks (exsqueeze me!) but seriously - don’t knock it until you’ve reached this stage.
Anyway, as said I celebrated my birthday by hooking up with some old mates. As is typical on one’s birthday I was totally ratarsed inside 3hrs and unable to grasp the concept of simple English as I ordered a pizza! After a few more hours of eating, falling over and general nonsense talk we then proceeded to go for a walk for fresh air. That’s when things went wrong, as there was a fireworks display in a nearby park. We all had no money so we jumped over a fence…and immediately got caught by the patrolling security guard! We were then thrown out 
I’m not sure how I got home after that as I passed out.
As I woke up on Sunday morning, I had no hangover and actually felt fresh but so badly down. Everyone else was still asleep in my mate’s house but I couldn’t stop thinking about my good bud Tasmin. We had a lovely relationship, details which I won’t get into but I miss her terribly now and it’s only just begun to set in. She’s off getting into some arranged marriage back home, something I was so strongly against but couldn’t interfere. My heart knows that she didn’t want that but had little choice but to go along with it. As I let my mind drift I wished that she was here with me, she was missing that night and she would have made it complete. I let my mind drift a lot more and smiled, I still had memories - good ones.
Credit to Objects and Pixels for the above image. One lovely site to visit.