When I was younger, being happy was easy. Now, it's definitely harder but also definitely not impossible. There are so many things that threaten our happiness; people, pressure and uncertainty are to name a few.*
*I have no idea whether I just used that semi-colon properly, or if there is even a hyphen between 'semi' and 'colon'. Gosh, this just sounds dirty now.
Well, as I've just proved, formality is a struggle for me so I'm not going to pretend I'm the sort of person who doesn't have to Google punctuation tips. Here is what I am good at, a list. A list of things that have made me happy recently.
1. Stroking my dog. I'm not a huge animal person but spending time with my dog brings me a weird sense of peace, the only downside being that she stinks 24/7 so I have to wash my hands three or four times after touching her. Ah, blissful human-dog love.
2. Making no effort to get dressed today at all. The furthest I went was to put my hair in a bun but even that felt a little bit excessive.
3. Finding a ready-meal in the fridge left for me by my mum. That sounds so boring but we are not a ready-meal family so this is a pretty huge gesture of unconditional love. In reality, she probably just couldn't be bothered to cook anything but I like the unconditional love thing.
4. A spot on my face finally disappearing. I was starting to worry it was going to be one of those moles that just looks like a huge spot. Luckily, I will not be renaming myself Nanny McPhee anytime soon.*
*Not that that would be awful, because she was one of my childhood idols.
5. Making this weird 'granola dust' stuff. Yes, it coated the roof of my mouth with a hard layer of cement but I felt all health food-y and vegan.
6. Buying some bright pink shoes. Whatever your favourite colour is, wear something that is unashamedly that colour. There will be some psychological reason as to why this is an instant mood boost, but all I know is that it is really fun.*
*I'm also going to unashamedly self promote myself right now. If you want to witness the true beauty of my pink trainers, check out my Instagram: @electriclil
7. Having loads of non-matching cushions in our lounge/sitting room/front room.
8. Rookie! I can't believe I've never mentioned it before but since I was about 13, I've been obsessed with this online magazine.
9. Pinterest. I didn't mean to mention so many external websites but scrolling through pictures of beautiful bedrooms and food is one of my favourite things to do when I'm stressed, or am lacking motivation to do anything.
10. These songs: This is literally a complete cliche but turn the volume up as high as possible, and dance to them.
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader
Electric Feel - MGMT
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheels
In conclusion, even if you're not the sort of person who uses semi-colons properly, cooks posh meals yourself without your mum's help, or gets dressed everyday, you deserve to be happy and you deserve to be able to make yourself happy.
Friday 23 October 2015
Saturday 10 October 2015
Hey it's okay...
In Glamour (great cheap monthly fashion-y beauty-y advice-y magazine), they have a column called 'Hey it's okay...' which is essentially a list of things that everyone does but that everyone thinks no-one else does. Kind of. I'm going to do my own version so you'll get the picture.*
*Whenever people say this I generally leave having not got the picture at all. Even perhaps questioning the existence of the picture in the first place, and whether it's actually just another weird confusing stem of the multiverse theory that's beyond our cosmological horizon.
Hey it's okay...
1. If you put two versions of a song in your Spotify playlist. One the Ke$ha cover (the only one you listen to) and one the 'Original Remastered 1746' version (the one you skip), just so you can pacify the music-taste judger in the back of your mind.
2. If you pretty much never wash your jeans because:
a) they're the only pair you've got so you really can't afford to lose them for a day or two.
b) they take absolutely freaking ages to dry.
c) you're worried the button you sewed on with yellow craft wool might fall off.
d) baby wipes do the trick well enough
3. To put sweet chilli sauce* on everything, even mashed potatoes.
*Yes, the bright orange, MSG goo.
4. If you take ibuprofen without having eaten anything so, when you remember an hour later, you frantically eat the half a squashed biscuit that's been in your bag for a month or so and pray you won't die.
5. To pull the tag that attaches the label to your clothes off with your hands, rather than finding some scissors, even though you know your mum would disapprove.
6. If you think most branded clothes are a waste of money* so buy a complete copy from Primark.
*And an example of humans placing worth in worthless things.
7. If you lick your phone to clean it. Yes, you know it's disgustingly unhygienic and just plain wrong but you're about to beat your best time on Solitaire so need to clean it without breaking the rhythmic flow of card shuffling.
8. To not know what the person speaking to you is on about so Google stuff as they say it.
9. To know all the words to every single song in your favourite album, and to sing them to yourself in order when you're walking somewhere without headphones. Even the little improvised 'woah's and 'yeah's.
10. If you can't quite justify buying a 5p bag in Sainsbury's but you're not carefree enough to hold the two jumbo packs of sanitary towels in your hands so you walk home with them under your fleece, looking like you've either shoplifted a small dog or a large bag of flour.
*Whenever people say this I generally leave having not got the picture at all. Even perhaps questioning the existence of the picture in the first place, and whether it's actually just another weird confusing stem of the multiverse theory that's beyond our cosmological horizon.
Hey it's okay...
1. If you put two versions of a song in your Spotify playlist. One the Ke$ha cover (the only one you listen to) and one the 'Original Remastered 1746' version (the one you skip), just so you can pacify the music-taste judger in the back of your mind.
2. If you pretty much never wash your jeans because:
a) they're the only pair you've got so you really can't afford to lose them for a day or two.
b) they take absolutely freaking ages to dry.
c) you're worried the button you sewed on with yellow craft wool might fall off.
d) baby wipes do the trick well enough
3. To put sweet chilli sauce* on everything, even mashed potatoes.
*Yes, the bright orange, MSG goo.
4. If you take ibuprofen without having eaten anything so, when you remember an hour later, you frantically eat the half a squashed biscuit that's been in your bag for a month or so and pray you won't die.
5. To pull the tag that attaches the label to your clothes off with your hands, rather than finding some scissors, even though you know your mum would disapprove.
6. If you think most branded clothes are a waste of money* so buy a complete copy from Primark.
*And an example of humans placing worth in worthless things.
7. If you lick your phone to clean it. Yes, you know it's disgustingly unhygienic and just plain wrong but you're about to beat your best time on Solitaire so need to clean it without breaking the rhythmic flow of card shuffling.
8. To not know what the person speaking to you is on about so Google stuff as they say it.
9. To know all the words to every single song in your favourite album, and to sing them to yourself in order when you're walking somewhere without headphones. Even the little improvised 'woah's and 'yeah's.
10. If you can't quite justify buying a 5p bag in Sainsbury's but you're not carefree enough to hold the two jumbo packs of sanitary towels in your hands so you walk home with them under your fleece, looking like you've either shoplifted a small dog or a large bag of flour.
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