Photograph // H.S

Prologue

Sitting on the edge of the porch of my apartment today, reminded me of the night I wanted to end it all.

The night, I was ready to jump off the edge into the Regent street beneath me while people were celebrating the arrival of the new year 2014. I could have done it you know, but something stopped me. It was a call from my mom years after our last encounter. I couldn't do this to her, not after she told me that I was the only family she had now and she had tired really hard to find me again...........Or was it just another one of her lies?

I can't remember things clearly from that day with all the screaming and fireworks down on the streets but maybe something about her voice, or her cries stopped me from jumping off the ledge. Or maybe it was hope that I wasn't alone anymore. I finally had someone. Whatever that lie was that saved me that day, I am thankful to it. I am thankful to everything that led to this time in my life where I am truly happy and my smile is not fake.

I am Sarah Hashim.....My father was a Pakistani and my mother was a British. People say they fought the world to be together and the only thing that ever got in there way was me. I was the reason for their separation and their fights. I don't remember much of it and who could blame me, I was only 2 then. 

 After the separation, my father took me back to his country where I grew up with not even a single soul around to comfort me. At the age of 19, my father send me back to London where he and my mom met, for studies. 

So now I am the girl who lives in a small and comfy apartment on Regent street, studies business management in a university, has a part time job in a book store owned by her neighbors and has an addiction of capturing everything that pleases her. In her camera of course... I am not saying it's the most perfect life but it's better than what I spend previously. 

Well I thought this was it but something got in the way. 

A famous boy named Harry Styles and a picture I captured one faithful day.