Circles

I’ve had such an eventful year. I met my boyfriend. I’ve moved house. Twice! I left London. So much has changed and yet it’s all felt so natural.
When I first started traveling to London from Cornwall to look for somewhere to live, I got a young persons railcard. I’ve used it constantly over the last 5 years and now that I’m 26 I’m no longer able to renew it. They used to come with cases, each with a different destination illustrating it. I remember that my mum had Bristol on hers. I had Oxford. I had no idea at the time that it was Oxford and thought nothing much of it at first. Eventually I gave it a proper look over  and thought it looked quite nice, quite picturesque. Figured it’d be nice to go someday, maybe, amongst the long long list of places I’d like to visit. I thought no more about it.

I live with my boyfriend now, in a village relatively close to Oxford. We visited it yesterday and it’s lovely. I was looking at the pictures we took and I realised that one looked familiar. I dug out my railcard and it was the building featured on the case. My railcard is soon to expire and then I’ll be getting rid of it. It seems sweetly nice that this little coincidence has happened. My mum would probably have told it was a sign. Whatever the case, I’m glad it happened. It’s closed that chapter of my life very comfortably.

April 18, 2011. nice things.