My Place To Escape

Do you have a place to escape to? My one puts everything in to perspective.

Days like today are unusual. I feel like I have accomplished everything, and nothing.

It was a good day, but I didn't manage to leave the office until gone 9:30pm, and left to find out that there was a problem with an account, and the client wanted it resolving immediately. This resulted in me finally finishing just before 11pm.

I think about the work I got done, but also the work that I still have left, and I know that unless I wind down, I'm going to be worked up for the night.

I always used to struggle to unwind, because I lived in a house full of people (7 in all), and didn't have a place to escape - except my room, but that didn't really count.

When I moved last year, I went into an apartment building, just outside of the city centre. Where I am now is based only 10 minutes from the perfect place to sit and forget the world. It really is perfect, but on nights like these, being too tired to take a trip out, my apartment really comes through for me.

My apartment faces the south, out of the back of the city, and I'm high enough up to see for miles and miles. I have a small balcony, it's pin-droppingly peaceful and my own special star that shines most nights. The moment I step onto that balcony all my troubles simply disappear. I have my perfect place to lose myself in, and it's built into my place. Have you found the place you can use to relax? If not, it's worth searching for one :-)