Expect the Unexpected!

This week I’ve been thinking that many aspects of life are confusing. When considering life, the saying goes the best things in life are free however as you grow older you feel that this is completely wrong as nowadays, nothing in life is free. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, they mean love, happiness and all things lardy dar, but as we all know, without money, happiness is a faraway dream.

I know you may think I’m wrong and that you can be happy without money, but stop and take a think about what you did over the weekend… I know what I did; I drove to the shops in my car which makes me happy, I went shopping for Christmas presents to make my family happy and I paid my bills (which makes the taxman happy!) So when you step back away from it all, it seems hard to think that a person without money would ever be happy.

However, two years ago I found out that sometimes, even money can’t make you happy. Whatever happened to me in that two years, it proved to me that nothing tangible can make you happy and even if you have everything you want in the world, you still might not be happy.

So I think what I’m trying to say is rather contradictory really and really that’s as confusing as it gets. You’ll never be happy without money and sometimes your not even happy with it.

So whatever happens you’ve just got to get on with it, suck it up and remember that whoever you are, wherever you are, you have to just keep going as happiness will come, just when it feels like it, and probably when you least expect it.

So, as another saying goes, expect the unexpected, but don’t, as the unexpected has probably already happened anyway and expected probably never will…

Confused yet?

Camera, Set, Action!

This week has been a week for action. Everyday this week I have been rushed off my feet with my new job and I couldn’t be happier. Some may say I’m a workaholic, I’d just say they didn’t enjoy working. I suppose it’s not that I enjoy working as I love coming home to my boyfriend and parents for an evening of rubbish TV as much as the next person, it’s just, why do something every day of the week if you end up hating it and yourself.

I live by the motto life is short, because it is! 10 years ago I was 11, starting my high school days and now I’m here, I’ve finished College, University and I’m now in my first big girls job! When I look back all those years so much has happened, I’ve lost friends, gained friends and had a few loves along the way. So now when I look at myself and feel how happy I am I realise that what makes me happy (I’m not sure if its the same for everyone) is to love every part of my life. Some people like to moan, some people like sadness, but I can’t be dealing with that. Why would you want to cry until your sobbing when you can laugh until your crying! Yes I believe that life is short, but I don’t think I’d want it any other way. Nothing else would push me, motivate me to try and make the most of myself. I always think ‘I want to do everything’ and I try my hardest to do it.

When you look at the phrase life is short, it’s weird because I’ve never heard anyone say that life is too slow. However, when your sat at your desk at work waiting for the hours to click by,
I do believe that hours can feel like days. I again experienced that Friday feeling and it actually drove me through the week… ‘On Saturday I get to wear leggings and be comfy’ is all I kept thinking and here I am on Saturday wearing leggings! It’s great when things are fulfilled, like when you do something good at work, or you surprise someone and they get that gorgeous look on their face which then doesn’t require a thank you.

This week has been a week of action, I completed my first week of tasks at work, made a few mistakes (but who doesn’t), I went to the gym the allotted numbers of times I wanted to and I ate healthily all through the week. Obviously these tasks and my personal goals are small, tiny bits of action which to the next person will never get noticed but to me they’re massive! Like Mount Everest really. But again where the motto comes in is here, life is short so why be disappointed when you didn’t do the things you wanted to do, you’ve got to revel in the moment and make sure that even if you don’t have an action packed week you admire the hours and days and what you did in them because they’re never coming back and all you can do is look ahead for more!

So do, look ahead for more and take action. Take every chance you can, walk over hot coals, do a bungee jump but no matter what happens make sure you climb your Everest’s however big or small.

So, you ready?

Camera, Set, Action!