Perspective.

Best place to clear the head - by the sea

Last week was a big week for me. It was big full of work and it was big full of life. Full of hard truths, full of small niggley things that I let get to me with a touch of the cruel side of life that you never want to think about. Death is never a welcome thing. It's like a heavy cloud that takes its time to move on. It sat in my thoughts with me all last week. How can we be here one day and gone the next? Why is it always the least deserving that go first? 

Sometimes, when the world just feels like it's taking one bite after the other from you, you just need to have your cry, then dust yourself off and keep going. This train of thought saw me through last week. Strong females will also show you how this resilient piece of wisdom works best. I have learnt this from my Great-Grandmother, my Nana and my Mum. All ones who have taken life's hard hits but have never wallowed in their own pain or misfortune.

Last week wasn't so much of a hard hit as it was just a floating heaviness that I couldn't quite shake. Eventually the time comes when the cloud in your mind passes on its own and the sun begins to shine again. Where you start to focus on all the positives. Life is a short, fleeting, unpredictable, fun, beautiful and tragic adventure. Sometimes all of those things in a day. It will get you down if you let it or lift you up if you don't.

Someone wise tells me all the time that "life rewards those who take chances". Every day is a new chance to think differently, to act differently, to do what you love, to change something you don't like, to be better than yesterday. Our thoughts and experiences shape us into who we are. Something about the last week has shifted my perspective into a more positive and proactive space. It has invigorated me to start saying 'yes' more and to stop thinking of all of the reasons 'why not', to do more of the little things that make me happy and to be grateful for everything I am fortunate enough to have every day, big or small.

Every once in a while we need to retune our perspective back to what's most important in life; family, friends, love and internal happiness.