JUST MY IMAGINATION

Belfast: Familiar, Yet New Do you know the phrase “Same same but different”? This is exactly how I felt after coming to Northern Ireland. It is a part of the UK, it looks like part of the UK but somehow feels very different. It is exciting enough to make you feel like you're in a different country, but reassuring enough to know you're in the same one. Belfast was somewhere I wanted to go a few years back, with a friend. We were so sure that we were gonna do this as a girl trip and discover a new part of the UK together. But we did not. In fact, we did not even make a single plan about it. I guess we just loved the idea of going there, but not as much as we wanted to put any effort into it. They believed they could, but they did not. Oh well. Sometimes in life, you want certain things, but you just don’t want them enough to put in the necessary efforts to make it happen. You just like the idea of those things. Nowadays, when I want to make something happen, I do it. This is how ...