dear london

dear london,

meeting you at first was kinda overwhelming. tube stations everywhere, mass amounts of people walking around, not gonna lie..didnt know what to think of you. however as i started to figure out how to get around you, i became more and more at ease.

you are a beautiful city. full of history, of creativity, of parks, of people from all backgrounds.....you are something new to me.

see since we dont know eachother too well let me explain why this is all so new to me. i am from america, a country that is still relatively young. we dont have abbeys filled with coffins from kings and queens from hundreds and hundreds of years ago, we also dont have palaces, or a royal guard, or really anything similar. the concept of history, in my eyes, really only goes back a couple hundred years. i was never taught to really embrace the past. in school, we reviewed some things, but you could tell that no one really was embracing it or taking it to heart. but here...in london..you still have a queen. as i was sitting at your buckingham palace i could not get my brain to fully understand the loyalty the people had to such a figure. the idea that this queen is part of lineage of many kings and queens is something i have a very hard time grasping.

yes grasping...i think thats the word i struggle to use while im here. all of the buildings in zone 1 (downtownish) are older....you can see and feel the history in them, even if you have no idea what it is. it is as if im stepping back in time but also being pushed forward into the future...how is that possible? taking pictures really didn't do any justice so i just didnt. i just enjoyed your scenery.

i feel like you are a maze, every time i turn a corner you surprise me with something new, something different, or something totally out of my sphere. yes yes i know you are just a city, but you have caused me to step and see that there is a past, a history that we are all a part of in someway. that we are all connected...and this history this rich past full of life, death, and love is also a part of my past. it makes me want to explore who i am more and learn to embrace all parts of me and all parts of other people and their culture.

so thank you london. i look forward to seeing you again in a month. but seriously..can you please not be so expensive next time?:)

sincerely,

jada