For some reason my posts over the last couple of months seem to be all about new things, firsts and new experiences. This isn't a bad thing, if anything its really positive, just something I noticed and thought that id write down. With this in mind, let me tell you about another new experience I had yesterday (or really early this morning, however you want to look at it)
Yesterday evening I was invited to a small dinner party type event at my friends flat down in London. An event that even though I was slightly apprehensive about due to my anxiety worries actually turned out to be an amazing night. The experience unfortunately came after this when I left a little bit later then I expected and ended up getting to the tube station about 3 minutes after the last tube had gone through.
Having walked that way with a friend, they suggested I could grab a night bus, however upon checking the times, each bus would get me back to Kings Cross station after the last train had left from there. This was the very new, slightly scary and quite worrying experience. I had missed the last tube and subsequently would miss the last train out of the city back home. Thank fully my friend Annie, who I'd walked up to the station with kindly offered me her sofa to sleep on for the evening.
Being the normally quite organised person that I am, especially when it comes to train times, this event came as quite a shock and took me back quite a bit. Needless to say that Annie's offer was amazingly generous, and I'd have been pretty lost about what to do otherwise.
Thankfully, upon getting back home this morning, it seems as though everything ended up turning out alright, even with this little hiccup. Next time though I feel I'll be keeping a closer eye on the time and perhaps even leave just a little bit earlier to air on the side of caution. As worrying as this experience was though, it was also quite exhilarating (think that's the best way to describe it) being able to have this big problem, overcoming it and doing something cool and new in the process.
