Hello, lovelies!
We’ll gloss right over how shamefully neglectful I've been
of this space in the last few months, shall we? New month’s resolution: be
better at bloggin’!
Thought I’d come back all guns blazing with a new weekly
series, something to jazz up dreary Thursdays before the weekend kicks in,
which I'm calling ‘Thought for Thursday’ (TFT). In essence, this will be a
little weekly bit of honest motivational or emotional writing which may strike a chord
with you, and might even prove beneficial in some way (which would be
amazing!). If you need a bit of a lift as the week’s dragging on, or a bit of
advice for something, or I’m just feeling ponderous and want to share my
thoughts with you all, this will be the place.
This week, I’ve had one particular phrase on my mind: ‘dream
big’. All over social media it seems that people are doing incredible things,
going to stunning places, doing crazy but wonderful things, and generally
living their dreams before 2015 passes away. For a few months I’ve felt a
bit…lost, I guess, and seeing gorgeous photos of foreign, exotic places on
Instagram and people on Facebook getting engaged at Disneyland stands as a
reminder that there’s no time like the present to act on your dreams. And, if it’s
just not possible to act on your ambitions yet for whatever reason, it’s still
completely fine to keep dreaming – and, for god’s sake, dream big.
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| Went all artsy with fairy lights and typography. Love me some typography. |
2016 is peeking around the corner now, and looms bigger on the horizon every day. It’s a smidgen bit early to be thinking about New Year’s resolutions, but I would very much like things to change next year. It’s easy to want change, but to make it happen is something very different, so in 2016 I’ve decided to (to put it eloquently) make shit happen.
Lately I’ve had a lot of time for reflection on life. More
and more people from school are settling down, making families etc, and that’s
not happening in my life just yet – but that’s okay, because I’ve got a lot of
living left to do yet. 2016 will see my 25th birthday (holy Jesus on a boat…),
and there’s a lot I want to have done by the big 2-5. I’m thinking Paris in
spring, New York at Christmas, and maybe France for a long summer weekend. I
want to float around the house like a princess with a latte in one hand and a
cat in the other – Christ, I want a house, full stop!
I’m dreaming big at the minute because soon the time for
dreaming will be over, and I’ll have to start being responsible for other
people. At the minute am finding it hard enough to look after myself without
the terrifying addition of kids (thinking long-term here, chill out), and I
want to be able to live out my dreams and ambitions – huge and unattainable as
they might seem at the moment – while there’s still time, and I don’t have to
worry about being grown up and paying bills and getting grass stains out of
clothes which, not gonna lie, is harder than it sounds. It’s so important to
dream, to have things to which you aspire, even if they’re not as big and grand
as travel or buying your first house; you may dream of promotion at work, or
being brave enough to try new food. Having goals and ambitions to work towards
gives life meaning: we can always better ourselves, and how else will we do
that than by dreaming big and facing challenges head on?
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| All together now... |
I’m sick of feeling lost and stuck in a rut. Am totally fed up with having to live by the rules of the dreaded ‘A’ word: anxiety (I’m not going to go into that right here and now, but there may be another TFT concerning having an ““anxiety disorder”” in due course). The new year is still a few weeks away yet, but now is the time to start planning to make my 2015 dreams a reality in 2016 – and they’re going to be BIG!
What are your dreams and aspirations, for next year or in
ten years’ time? Are there things you want to change in 2016, or are your
dreams more down-to-earth? I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject of
dreaming big, and the idea of TFT as a whole, in the comments below!
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