As you may know, before moving to London, I was a Parisian.

I woke up that day and my heart crushed when I saw a hundred of unread messages on my phone. Something happened while I was asleep in paradise… I knew it and was too afraid to read a bad news.

Paris, I didn’t leave you because I didn’t like you anymore. I still love your dirty grey streets, your locals always in a rush, your cafés full of people starting at you when you pass by, your people coming from everywhere, your flea market and the weird smell of your metro, your freedom and your strong opinion on every subjects, no matters if they matters or not. It is true that a part of you is staying anywhere you call a place home. Paris is one of my home. The terraces, the concert halls, the pavement of the streets I’ve been walking on again and again have been coloured by the blood of innocent people who were like you, who were like me. It could have been you. It could have been me.

I was so far away… I was so heart broken. I didn’t want to believe it. Things like that happened in the world all the time. Life is unfair and no one on earth should suffer war, attacks or terrorism. You are touched when you hear that a bomb exploded in another country, far away. You think about the families and the friends, you think about the fact that some people are living hell on earth. But let’s be honest, if you haven’t been in the country or the city that had been touched, you can’t really imagine the horror of the scene. When you can picture the places that something like that happened you are even more horrified… It could have been my friends, my family. It could have been me.

Today, I would like to show my solidarity to Paris, ma douce. But it would be unfair of me to not continue this trip and enjoy every fucking seconds of this life. They had no right to take what they took and I will celebrate life. It’s my way to respect those who died, it’s my revenge, my way to say fuck you assholes.

As much as I’m touched, I will continue that trip with the smile.

Paris je t’aimais, je t’aime et je t’aimerai. Keep your heads up.