I have just determined why being in London seemed such a challenge at times. Listening to Jamie Cullum (a Brit, for sure) I was musing that he’d “succeeded” and had become someone (something?) famous. But given the sheer multitude of people in London alone, it seemed that the desire to be something different was held down by the impossibility of standing out. I felt like my surroundings were sucking the desire for being more right out of me.

Here in Adelaide again, though, I feel like there should be nothing to prevent us from striving for more and better. Why not be unique, better in maybe just one way than everyone else, and shine brighter in that respect, with abandon?