Musings
It’s three years since I announced I was running for Parliament, three years since the way I thought and acted changed dramatically. Watching candidates get nominated and excited from this side of the world, while London prepares to elect its mayor, is making me want to be back in it, I miss the adrenaline rush of the campaign and the way I felt both incredibly small and silly and on top of the world at the same time. I never ever thought I’d say this but maybe I want to do it again sometime. It nearly took it all out of me last time but the last three years have also changed my perspective on the importance of politics.
I’ve always said the most annoying thing about politics is that it’s only very loosely based in reality. Life in Parliament is its own little world and that frustrated me. I have learned, however, that very little of life is actually based in reality (whatever reality is). My job at the Church is very much based in a church-reality, the things I do in London are based on a view of the world that takes it in from a London-perspective. I know that friends in NGOs get annoyed at the loose-sense of reality in their perspective . . . so is there actually any real reality and is politics and Parliament really that bad. I’d certainly love to be back in a Parliamentary setting because there’s something so thriving about the atmosphere working for States.
Time to stop musing and start blogging about non-me stuff . . .
