My rambling blog posts!

  The world is a stressful place, for a variety of reasons. As adults, we get inundated with stressful happenings; bills, jobs, health problems, parental woes, stress and many other issues pop up all the time and it's all too easy to feel down or disillusioned about your lot in life. A lot of us try to go back to our "happy place" and generally that means when we were all children with very little stress in life, hanging out with dear friends and being generally carefree.  I firmly believe that's why many things that were formerly aimed squarely at children have now become more adult-orientated, for example; cartoons aimed at adults, adult colouring books, instead of comics there are graphic novels. Adult toy collecting is booming and a lot of video games are made purely for the mature gamer. There are even "bounce" type places for grown-ups so we even get soft play areas! I'm not criticising all this, in fact I actively participate in a lot of the activ...

  I share a lot of things on social media; things I've drawn, silly videos, my attempt at singing and even when I am struggling mentally - I share a lot!  However, there are still many, many things I don't share; poems and sketches I've written and drawn, anniversaries of certain family members and friends deaths, videos I filmed and then decided they were too cringey to post, (yes, that's right - the videos I have posted are deemed as NOT cringey!), photos, the majority of my worries and anxieties  and a multitude of other things that I just wouldn't share due to deciding nobody wants to see or hear about them and well, anxiety.  So what is the point I wish to make in this blog post? Just that it's perfectly ok NOT to share everything, in fact it's nice to retain a certain mystique about yourself. I see some people who put EVERYTHING about their lives, (good and bad), on social media and I can't help but think that can't be a good thing.  I enjoy sh...

  This photo was taken back in 2020, the covid pandemic had taken hold and I had grown a beard, having told people that I would shave it off once covid had gone away! Morale around the globe was low and to try to spread a bit of joy I began posting daily videos and posts on social media to cheer folks up. I then started also doing daily whiteboard quotes and sharing them wherever I could, just to make someones day more upbeat. As a final act of defiance against the depressing world events I did a load of "virtual santa" videos for children who couldn't visit Santa's grottos. To the outside world, I was Mr happy-go-lucky, smiling whilst attempting to raise spirits all around me. The truth was actually much bleaker... I actually grew a beard because I no longer cared about myself or how I looked. Since the start of the pandemic, (much like the rest of the globe), I was struggling; struggling to stay positive, struggling to keep afloat whilst everything around me was goi...