Sunday 1st June...

How did that happen? June? Already?! Madness! Half way through the year and this is where I am at… Paris? Perhaps unrealistic. Japan …perhaps more realistic! England? NOPE! I have sacrificed many an occasion in favour of saving and in return I now have a new laptop, an ongoing TEFL course and would you believe it?! …Actual savings! ‘Shocked’ is not an expression I usually choose when evaluating myself from afar, but I am indeed slightly shocked that I have managed to do this …so far that is. 

Saving money has never been my strong point, as I’m sure many of you can relate to, but I’m telling you now, forget smoking, exercise or food…saving IS an ADDICTION! You start with putting a little aside each month and before you know it, you can’t stop! So I recommend it to anyone and yes, I am aware that I may be preaching to the converted and this is what most people have done every month since the beginning of their own existence,  but I am definitely not one of those people. So if you too are AWFUL with the notion of this particularly 'adult' activity, and are more of a Jane and Michael than a Mr Banks, then I encourage you to just DO IT and stop feeding those birds NOW! 

At the beginning of this year I would never have expected to be considering Asia as an option, if not for any other reason than pure laziness of sorting out visa’s, doing the course and having to make conscious and extremely productive decisions in my life. I really wasn’t sure what the future was going to hold for me and I had spent a lot of time waiting around for something to happen. I decided a long time ago that if something was meant to happen, then it just would, and that was all there was to it. I would quite often walk around London and wrongly predict that some high level business person would approach me on the street and ask me to be the next huge lyricist, playwright or author. I would think about this to the extent where there was no other option for me to even consider. This was the fact of the matter, and there was definitely no way that it would not happen. 

So I waited, and I waited and then after that, I waiting some more. And guess what happened (of course) NOTHING! My childlike beliefs of magical lands far far away, that I would one day reach during a freak tornado that would pull my house up from its very roots, and take me there whilst I watched my weird indian neighbour fly pass the window on a bicycle, had been demolished.

  

I had suddenly realised that this naïve perspective on life was the very thing, the only thing, that was holding me back. So I booked a solo trip to Paris to experience LIFE. Since then (I think) I have a better understanding of how this 'life' thing works. Truth be known, if you want something to happen than you have to make it happen yourself through pure hard work and perseverance. As Britany Spears 'Queen of Pop' once sang…you want a lamborghini? YOU BETTER WORK BITCH!

True story indeed. So here I am working my little socks off and making that all important decision to make something happen for me and for the greater good. It will take time, energy, money and effort but if you think about it, by having this idea in the first place, I’m already half way there. So I’ll do what Britney tells me to do, and I’m sure by this time next year, she'll have another hit song out called 'How Sarah Lakin made it work...bitch'! Fingers crossed!