Well it has certainly been an exciting couple of days in the UK, and I for one am absolutely overjoyed at the news of the latest addition to the royal family! I was awake late last night waiting to hear all the details of the new royal and got completely swept up in it! And then I went on facebook.
What is wrong with the Great British public? So many people were complaining, "It's just a baby" "who cares?" I've seen tweets insinuating your life is quite empty if you are obsessed about the future heirs name, jeez guys, cheer up!!! He isn't JUST a baby, he is a future King, and kind of a big deal. No baby is JUST a baby, they are the whole world to it's parents. I hope to start a family in a few years, and I hope for a healthy kid too just like Wills and Kate, and I would be livid if anyone described my offspring as JUST a baby, I'd probably go for them if my hormones were a raging (be warned)!
I think yesterdays events were wonderful for our country, our royal family are something to be extremely proud of. I can understand people not being happy our taxes go towards their upkeep but the amount they do for charity, and for our country is incredible. Great Britain is a tiny island, compare it to the US, Australia, India, China and it is pathetically small, yet so well known. Here in India, everyone knows about the royal baby, and all over the world people know about England and our royal family.
Seeing images in the media of people celebrating made me immensely proud to be a brit, and have a country which unites and comes together to celebrate times like this.... Well most of us!
Anyhow, if a royal baby wasn't enough, the miserable folk on that tiny island had plenty more to complain about over the last week as the temperature soared to dizzy heights of... Erm, 32 degrees.... So many people complained they couldn't sleep, it was too hot. I'd bloody love for them to come and stay here in the summer, with the frequent power cuts its a true delight trying to sleep with no fan or AC in 40+ degrees. I heard it started raining last night, brilliant, I thought, cool them down a bit.... Nope! Now everyone is complaining they couldn't sleep because of the scary thunder.
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago everyone complained that there was never going to be a summer, winter was never going to end? You can't control the weather so why even bother wasting your energy moaning about it?
Living in India has shown me how people embrace the seasons, when it rains people go crazy with excitement - more of that in the UK please!
Another bugbear of mine at the moment is friends with kids moaning on facebook, a friends little girl chopped her hair off the other day so she posted it on FB, absolutely traumatised, I couldn't help but comment, at least she's happy and healthy!!! Another was going mad as she couldn't find an ipod that was just perfect for her little princess about to turn 6.... A lot of kids here live in such poverty they'd be happy with a rubber ball for their birthdays!
Seeing the way people live here, focusing on looking after one another and being happy and healthy and embracing life has really changed me, I just hope the grumpy bums in the UK don't suck it out of me when I move back!
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