🇬🇧 Every Return to London is a Collision of Worlds

The countryside remains achingly beautiful, London still hums with its quiet madness, Every corner café could be a postcard.😊 Nothing has changed—👍 the city persists, ancient yet modern. But perhaps I have changed. Without the(filter), I now see:😍 • The hollowed-out industries, • The crumbling manufacturing, • Prices climbing like ivy on brick, • Welfare systems straining under weight.😁 This morning: 🍻 Drinkers at the pub at dawn, 🗣️ A homeless man shouting into the wind, 💼 The hurried footsteps of commuters. Just an ordinary day—except the smell of cannabis everywhere catches me off-guard. I return now as a tourist, with more money but less wonder.❤️ My child picks dandelions in the park, her freedom painting the scene I once dreamed of. For a moment, it’s perfect. But life isn’t just parks and meadows... #LondonLife #TravelDiaries #SeeingDeeper #NostalgiaAndReality 🇬🇧✨