19, it's a bit of a nothing age really, isn't it? 18 was a landmark; 20 enters a new decade, but 19 is a bit in limbo really. However, in the year since turning 18, I feel like I've turned into an adult. I've dealt with the highs of being in a relationship to the lows of splitting up; I've acclimatised to life at uni, which at Christmas is something I never thought I'd do and I've had to deal with some very difficult situations at home. I'm a fully-fledged grown up!
As I write, we currently don't have a government; last Thursday was the (long overdue) General Election...I felt proud to exercise my right to vote. I'm not a feminist by any means but people who don't vote, especially women, drive me crazy, especially when you consider what the Suffragettes endured to gain women the right to vote in the first place. But we have a hung Parliament; as of today, Gordon Brown has resigned, making a LibLab coalition look all the more likely; if so, then so-be-it, but this country is a mess and the election results reflect that. We have economic worries, educational issues and so much more that needs dealing with in the immediate future. In fact it's scary. But is Britain as 'broken' as we (and by that I mean the media) make it out to be? No, not really. Look all around, there are success stories everywhere. We have a tendency as a country to be very negative, but let's look on the positive for a change. Look at what people have achieved rather than what we've lost. We aren't a broken country, we do have a broken government but it's the 60 million occupants that make a country, not a shambolic government.
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