Le Cinq de Depart

D-1: London

I should have spent the day thinking about what clothes I would be wearing for Suhki's wedding on Saturday or making sure that I have a bed to sleep in tomorrow night ... but instead I spent the day having a girlie lunch and getting a hair cut.

Lunch was a fun affair with old friends from high school. Girls i used to spend a lot of time with both in and out of school mainly playing bball together. Ten years down the line, I am happy to say that most of them live the most normal lives possible.

What is normal, I hear you ask ?

Well, it is with a small invisible tear in my eye that I will admit to sometimes feeling that today, normalcy mostly means the two Bs ie. Boyfriends and Babies.

Today I was surrounded by girls all settled into long term relationships, babies,a roof over their heads and a "proper job". It did occur to me, between the steak tartare and the fondue au chocolat, that their state of affairs would produce copious amounts of cold sweat trickling down my back. Luckily, my back was having none of it. Although I have neither a permanent roof,a job, a baby or a boyfriend I couldn't help but think "isn't normalcy self-created?"