Chill Your Beans, Man

We have to talk.

Well, sort of.

There's been a lot, and I mean a lot going on lately. Do you ever feel like everything's going too fast? It's almost as if (and this is going to sound very cheesy, but I'm going to pretend that I don't care) you're stuck in the eye of the hurricane, and all you can do is move about- surrounded by this swirling, hurling storm of worry and problems and just general things that you need to do.

And you have to deal with all this stuff that's thrown at you, until eventually it dies down. One by one... all these problems seem to just disappear...

Yeah right.

As if that actually happens. 

I've been waiting for a while for this to happen to me, and look at where I got. I'm still in the same place as I was ages ago, I've forgotten what I was even doing in the first place.

But I'm still a hot mess. I mean, look at this font.

Cute, right?

So, I thought today we could just kick back, relax, and appreciate all the people who tend to feel this way too. And that's practically everyone, right? So, hopefully, I'm going to totally zen you out tonight.

And don't take that the wrong way. We're here to be friends, and if we're going to do that then there's no way that I'm going to be awkward about it.

*cue definition*

Cheeky Nandos:

Definition number 1-

When you're out with the lads and you're having a look in JD and you might fancy the Curry Club at 'Spoons but then your mate Callum who's an absolute ledge and the Archbishop of Banterbury says "Oi brevs let's have a cheeky Nandos instead" and you'll think "Top. Let's smash it."

Tool #1: Oi mate fancy a browse in River Island? Just seen a solid 10 bird outside
Tool #2: Na mate I'm off for a Cheeky Nandos instead

Definition number 2-

Top notch banter
you know when you go down town with the lads and you all realize you’re hank marvin’ so you say “lads let’s go Maccers” but your mate Smithy a.k.a. The Bantersaurus Rex has some mula left on his nandos gift card and he’s like “mate let’s a have a cheeky nandos on me” and you go “Smithy my son you’re an absolute ledge” so you go have an extra cheeky nandos with a side order of Top Quality Banter

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Can you tell that today's post isn't going to be very serious?

So... I want to make you (and me, because I am very stressed out right now) more relaxed and hopefully laugh...

Possibly not- but I hope so...

Do what this gif says!

(Turkish man yelling meow at an egg. enjoy.)

I would tell you some jokes, too. But we all know how that ended up on my last post...

I had a lot of fun doing this part of the post... but, there's also the serious side. Isn't there?

It's all nice and well laughing at some random goofball's failures at life. But it's not going to last forever, is it?

What we really need, is a nice cuppa and some relaxing music.

My ideal situation is a rainy day, and you're sat on the windowsill with a cuppa in your right hand and a book in your left. Some sort of melodic, relaxing and, knowing me, slightly depressing music. 

Just picture that. Picture that for just a minute or so.

Ahhh...

I just love rain in general. I think it's a pretty good job, when you live in England. But it's relaxing, and warm and calm and I just can't get enough of it.

One song that reminds me of this is Promise by Ben Howard.

(Actually, the whole of Every Kingdom- Ben Howard's first album- is brilliant for rainy days)

Another relaxing 'image' for me is a forest.

Kind of like a Katniss Everdeen forest- all big, and green, and the sound of water flowing and leaves rustling and insects chirping away like there's nothing else that they're alive for.

Water is a big theme here, isn't it?

Just imagine. You were in your favourite place, with nobody else- just you. Everything was just perfect- nothing horrible was going on. Every problem that went on in the real world... just... gone. The people you don't like, or the people you want to forget about- far, far away. They don't exist here.

All there is, is you and what you're surrounded by. An escape from reality. A safe haven. 

Now whether it's a beach, the library, the cinema or a park. It doesn't matter whether it's a swimming pool, or the back yard or the supermarket. It's unique and it's special to you. It's your safe place, embrace it.

Everything that ever went wrong in your life, it doesn't exist anymore. It didn't even happen in the first place. 

Happiness. Peace. Everywhere.

I don't know about you, but to me, it sounds pretty damn perfect.

You're allowed to feel safe. You're allowed to feel happy.

You're allowed to love, to laugh and to live.

And yeah, okay, sometimes things won't go exactly as you wanted them to go. But that doesn't mean that from that point onwards, everything in your life is going to go wrong. It isn't.

You can feel sad, or angry, or jealous, or hate. You can feel all the negative things, you can hate the world and everything on it.

But please don't give up- there's always a safe haven.

You just have to find it.

Fly On, and don't look down

Luce xx

PS: Relax. Close your eyes. Enjoy the peace. Listen to music. Play with your dog. Do whatever it takes to calm yourself down. You're worth it.

PPS: I have a song for you, and I'm feeling sorta edgy about this one. I don't know if you like it, and I hope you do. So it's called Mad World. There are so many different versions of it, so I won't give you a link and I won't tell you who it's originally by either, because it's probably wrong. Just Google it and pick your favourite. 

PPPS: Don't forget to compliment yourself once in a while. I know it sounds cheesy, but honestly- you deserve it. So please, don't forget that...
(Thank you)
x