Sunday, Mar 15th 2026
[3:37pm]
Yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life. You hear people say that and you cringe, but maybe that's because you haven't actually felt that feeling before, but something about yesterday felt very significant. I went and visited Mimi and we went on a 3.5 hour long walk around multiple different parks in south Birmingham, a bit of a park tour, if you will.
It was a really lovely sunny day, and I just felt like the whole time I was living in a dream or a memory. Again, sounds really wanky when I say it, but it's true. Sometimes you just have experiences where you already feel nostalgic for them as they happen in real time.
My favourite of the parks we went to was Cannon Hill Park. I genuinely felt a childlike sense of wonder for the first time in months or maybe even years. Not that anything was particularly wonderous... but I was just reminded of going to big parks as a kid and seeing them for the first time and taking in all the beauty of it. Because I'm very used to all the parks around where I live, that sense of wonder has gone, and I thought it was just because I wasn't a little kid anymore. But no, I've still got it ;) Just a case of being at the right place at the right time with the right person.
If I had to boil everything I loved about yesterday's park adventures to one photo, it'd be this:
There is something SO FUCKING AWESOME about skyscrapers living in coexistence with nature. Being in a wide open green space and seeing the skyline of the city in the background... it makes me feel intensely nostalgic for some reason. I didn't feel like myself, I felt like I was viewing life through the eyes of someone living in 2006 or something, not 2026. But at the same time, this made me feel more myself than I have for... again, maybe years.
After walking around for a bit more, the sun set, and Mimi and I lay down in the grass on our way back to her house. That moment is something that's burnt into my mind I think, the views of the clouds upside down and looking over to see the skyscrapers with their lights on now the sun had gone... Just beautiful. Very simple things like that make me happy. It's because Nottingham is a very short city, We basically have no proper big buildings. And I live a bit far out from the centre so any parks or fields I have access to are purely rural, no city in sight. But it's the marriage of the two that makes me feel this weird nostalgic happiness feeling.
If you're reading this, you'll either totally get what I mean or just be weirded out as to why I'm focusing so much on it, so soz if you're the latter.
But yeah, that view just fills me with a lot of emotions and really inspires me to create something that could replicate that feeling, although it'll never be a perfect re-creation. I think yesterday was one of my favourite days of my whole life. I was inspired by the sights I saw to create a narrative for a story or a film, but I'll tell you about that sometime else.