From Pain to Prosperity

Sarah Smith is your average twenty something living in London. Like many millennials flocking to London with big aspirations of finding love and big careers, Sarah seemingly managed to make one of her dreams come true. "Most twenty-five-year-olds with a hot live-in boyfriend would find much more intriguing ways to spend their nights than watching Netflix on the sofa till the early hours of the morning. But alas, that was not to be my life. It was either Netflix or lie awake in bed with...
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Sarah Smith is your average twenty something living in London. Like many millennials flocking to London with big aspirations of finding love and big careers, Sarah seemingly managed to make one of her dreams come true. "Most twenty-five-year-olds with a hot live-in boyfriend would find much more intriguing ways to spend their nights than watching Netflix on the sofa till the early hours of the morning. But alas, that was not to be my life. It was either Netflix or lie awake in bed with my boyfriend asleep next to me, wondering what had happened to our relationship. I had chosen Netflix."When her relationship crumbles and her job as a receptionist at a high ranking newspaper is threatened, Sarah finds herself plummeting to rock bottom. On the verge of homelessness, Sarah conceded that there she had no other choice but to make that dreaded phone call, to her mother."Cameron and I broke up," I mumbled. "I don't have anywhere else to go." I held my breath as I waited for her to respond. My stomach was in knots and I felt like I was my teenage self again, waiting to get a telling off for something I had done wrong.Back in her childhood room, in debt with redundancy looming, Sarah questions the choices she'd made that led her to where she was. But, when a girl had a spirited colleague in her corner and a chance encounter with the hot new CEO of the Mirror, Sarah slowly starts to realise that the best part of rock bottom was that the only way left, was up. She starts to wonder if there wasn't some sort of purpose to it all. She soon realises that maybe she had to lose the dead weight of her old life, so she could sour to the top of her new. Sarah's story reinforces to us all, the age old saying, that when life gives you lemons....you get out a big jug and make some lemonade.