My rambling blog posts!

  All of us are searching for happiness in some way. After all we've all been fed the dreams of happiness from a young age - you go to school, finish school, find friends along the way, get a job, fall in love, get a house, maybe start a family and everything falls into place and you are eternally happy, right?  Well, sadly this isn't always the trajectory for everyone. Marriages fall apart, jobs get lost, houses are too expensive, friends get fed up of you, loveless relationships, abusive relationships, etc etc. So does this mean therefore that happiness is only for the few? That can't be right, surely! No, happiness is for all but it is the concept of eternal happiness that is the issue... I firmly believe happiness exists in lots of little moments, such as getting home from work after a long day at work, your first cup of coffee of the day, eating your favourite food, listening to your favourite song, seeing the sun rising and other similar little moments of joy.  Toda...

  We've all heard of the phrase "put it on the back burner"...well, my back burner is overflowing with things I've put off doing! Even without the bigger things in life, (learn to drive, get in shape, buy a house, etc), I struggle with getting round to doing things.  If you are one of my close friends then you will know all too well how I happily make plans for us to do certain activities; in most cases I write up a to-do list to remind me of things we plan to do together which has culminated in me having various to-do lists! I genuinely fully intend on sticking to and I look forward to doing those plans but I appear to be fairly inept on arranging actual times and dates, (I love hanging out with friends but hate bothering people so it creates a dilemma when arranging anything as I'm scuppered by my politeness).  Is everyone like this? Surely we all have little to do lists that get added to every few months or so? I am fairly impulsive which has also meant that I ...