Aunt trip

In 2013, after almost three years of service in Afghanistan, George Madsen, a gay Royal Navy communications petty officer, retired. His experience in the distant deserts had left an indelible mark, the memories of friends lost and challenges faced still burned vividly in his mind.
Coming home was not as he had imagined. The familiar streets of London seemed foreign now, the familiar faces unfamiliar. The noise of the city had become deafening, oppressive. Lost between the shadows of the past and the emptiness of the present, George struggled to find a sense of belonging.
The nights were the worst. The dreams took him back to the desert, among the fiery sands and the roar of the fighting. He would wake up sweating and shaking, his heart gripped by a sense of anguish that he couldn't shake. He sought comfort in friends, but their lives had moved on while his had stood still in time. He felt out of place, a stranger in his own home. Even his family seemed distant to him, incapable of understanding the ghosts that tormented him. She always had been, she had tolerated her homosexuality but in truth not everyone had truly accepted it, it's hard to be the only son in a traditional family when you're not attracted to women.
George retreated into himself, finding some solitude in his grief. His mind was an often dark labyrinth, populated by memories and regrets, only the grass lifted him up. But he continued to believe that in the darkness, there was a faint light that still burned. Hope, a fragile anchor in the stormy sea of ​​his mind, for now, however, George Madsen was just a man seeking peace, shipwrecked in the ocean of his own soul.

George Madsen, disillusioned with the city he once called home, decided to abandon his rented apartment and go on a trip. He felt the call of the East, a land of mystery and spirituality that had fascinated him more than twenty years earlier.
His destiny was Thailand, and he decided to stop in Bangkok. The vibrant city, with its noisy markets and ancient temples, seemed to offer a refuge from the inner chaos that plagued him.