Charlotte Giver - fashion events, articles, spontaneous trips, days at my internship

The other day on my way back from school, about to enter a roundabout almost as hectic as my own life seemed to be on that Friday afternoon, I took up an Elle magazine from my bag, waited patiently to cross the road. I took a deep breath and found that reading something else rather than law, politics and economic books was a relief for the moment. As I started to flip through the pages of the magazine an article with the headline “Is the stigma of therapy shrinking” caught my attention. Therapy or as the magazine outlined: LA therapy. The UK based magazine wrote about the subject in such an angle that it seemed “cool” and “hip”, hiding factors such as stress and anxiety in between glamorous sentences; “In the states therapy is as much a national emblem as the skinny decaff latte with extra whip”, “therapy seems to be the norm of successful, intelligent women trying to improve their lives” followed by “it doesn’t get much more LA than this, all you need is a shrink” Even though I was tired from a week of revising, this article woke me up! And I started thinking… when did therapy become a trend? And do some people today actually search for a hectic lifestyle, in which therapy is just a balanced factor in the equation? Of course people should do what makes them happy and if therapy will contribute to your personal wellbeing, then why not…but to encourage a lifestyle leading up to the need for therapy is just wrong! I looked up from the magazine and thought: is it trendy to be busy and stressed with work? Is that what makes us feel important? I did not want to believe that but in a world in which we feel ashamed and embarrassed if hanging out on the couch, watching movies a whole weekend as we rather want to fill our calendar with work, cocktail parties, activities ..and work in order to keep ourselves busy, it is no wonder people consider therapy. However, my suggestion is to allow yourself a break and go for a run or just a walk along the beach and appreciate what you have achieved as that could just be the best type of therapy.

I once heard someone say that before you die you need to have seen the New York skyline. I believe that is true. I will never forget my very first train rides into New York City. As a nineteen-year-old girl with headphones in my ears, playing the four seasons December 1963, I sat glued to the window, fascinated of what was in front of me.While sitting there I started thinking of how that one city, only twenty minutes away by train, could contain so much: so many different people, dreams, success, careers, talents, shows, restaurants etc. And even though I barely could keep my eyes open when that same train took me back to Connecticut in the early mornings after a night out in the city, I could not keep myself from looking back over my shoulder in order to witness the rippling red-orange sun just raising with the city beneath it, before sleeping the 50 minutes back to the train station. With this being said, it can’t be argued anything but: New York is amazing and so are other big cities such as London and Barcelona for example. As much as I love to travel, one can spend a whole day in New York or London without doing so and still travel the world. There is China town for example, Little Italy, Paris just by Central Park, The French restaurants downtown, and the Japanese restaurants on Bleecker and Meetpackingdistrict. Whilst walking down a street in Notthing Hill, these thoughts hit me again: how one city can take you to so many cities. That is what I love about travelling; one city always brings you something new and that is why I can’t wait to pack my suitcase and keep my passport safely stored in my back pocket ready to enter the world for new adventures.