globetrottingrosie

So...it's Pride month, and I thought I'd write something a little different.  I've never really opened up about my sexuality-  perhaps to my closest friends and family I've briefly spoken about it,  but not publicly.  What is sexuality? Should we let it define us?  Sexuality is a long, confusing journey. For some, at least.  I've met many people who firmly believe they are 'straight'  and they might say something like 'I'm straight as a barge pole'-  not that I like any language such as this defining sexuality, but,  it's what I've heard from others.  Okay, so for many, it's easy- you're a woman and you like men,  or you're a man and you like women.  My journey, however, has been somewhat bumpy. A long and winding road,  as The Beatles might say.  As a teenager, I always felt different. In life generally,  I've never known where I quite 'belong'.  As most of you know, I

This is one of those posts that I really want to write, but now I've opened the page, I'm not actually sure how I want to begin... or even what I want to share... Anyway. I don't know about you, but 2020 seems to have been thrown  somewhere into the abyss. I've spent my 20's worrying about what my future will look like, then just  as I was beginning to make plans, the world went BAM,  not gonna happen this year! Back in February, I went to Ninh Binh (in Vietnam) for a few days.  I was chilling in the hostel restaurant, when my boss called. "I think it is best if you go home now, rather than later" she decided. It was almost like she knew. I got home the week before all the flights were cut, and a week or so before  Boris Johnson confirmed lock-down in the UK. In the last few months, I lost my job, my granddad passed away,  and our dog has  been diagnosed with lymphoma (a form of cancer.) I&