Hello lovelies!
I recently watched an interesting TED Talk (yes I'm a nerd, deal with it! :P) about emotional hygiene. I won't give away the full video, in case you decide to watch it, but one point that was made was that when we're lonely, we have a tendency to feel like things are beyond our control. It's almost like we're incapacitated and can't do anything, similar to being in a state of depression. The video offered a solution, and that was to practice emotional hygiene. When you're lonely for example, acknowledge it and take the step to reach out to someone, or distract yourself, or do something you enjoy, to get out of that mood quicker. Hearing someone tell me that really helped me.
I haven't posted in a while because as of late, I've been in that negative head space. Not that life is bad or anything, on the contrary it's pretty fantastic! But I just let little things like stress, loneliness, plans not working out, etc get to me and prevent me from being my usual fun self. And it was happening for so long that I almost forgot what it was like prior to being in that cloudy, sad haze. Well it stops now! I am an amazing person. If you're reading this, I don't doubt that you are also an amazing person! Sometimes life gets us down and we need to remember we are in control of bringing ourselves back up again.
So, I'm back and I'm ready to do all the fun and amazing things I've been wanting to do. When things don't work out the way I want, I need to accept what I can't change and keep going anyway. I firmly believe that you get what you give. So I want to practice reckless optimism and I really believe I will get it right back. It's helped motivate me through so much before, and I'm going to let that positivity continue to motivate me in the future!
Hope everyone has a delightful day and you'll be seeing more of me, promise!
