After a While // Project 365 // Day 261

After a while 

the hurt, hurts less

xoxo

On the Island // Project 365 // Day 238

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Castle on a Hill // Project 365 // Day 199

Found my heart and broke it here

Made friends and lost them through the years

And I've not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I've grown

But I can't wait to go home

xoxo

There are Moments that the Words don’t reach // Project 365 // Day 142

One of the best things about travel is that you will encounter some truly sobering experiences.

I had planned to go to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews during my time in Berlin but as it happened I ended up coming across it walking somewhere else. And the magnitude of it truly hit me.

The concrete slabs sit at different heights, whilst the ground also sloops. There’s order and anarchy to it.

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Berlin // Project 365 // Day 140

grey skies won’t stop us

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change // Project 365 // Day 139

The point of change isn’t to make yourself  happy. The point of change is to grow, to show up for yourself, to express yourself, to be an example of what is possible, to test the limits, to have new experiences. You can be happy and grateful for where you are and and still choose to change everything, just because you want to

- Sam Laura Brown

Don’t Take Your Life For Granted // Project 365 // Day 137

One of the things that my 48 trip to Berlin taught me. Was that I take my life for granted, I live like stuff will happen eventually, that the universe will align and everything will work itself out.

When instead I should be doing the work, to change my life to what I want it to resemble. This trip was one of the first steps. To be able to run away for little while, see a new city, go to a gig. It was easy really. Less than three weeks from thought to fruition.

So the next step is to do it more.

Life is not a guarantee. We don’t know when that bus is coming. So do what makes you happy. Live for the moment. Get out of toxic situations and get on a plane. Let your feet hit foreign pavements.

Stop waiting to live your life. Stop waiting for the moment to be right. Stop waiting.

Don’t take your life for granted. Look back and be able to say at least you did it, at least you tried.

xoxo

A Thank You to You // Project 365 // Day 128

Another open letter that I can’t send so here we go universe;

I suppose I should say thank you 

When you exited my life I didn’t notice, there was no gaping you shaped hole in the space where you left. It felt like nothing had changed at all. 

When I found out, in the midst of what felt like nothing but losing people from my life I wanted to try and keep all  who remained.  But why fight for something that you didn’t want to be a part of and I didn’t miss. 

Instead of spiralling into another reactionary period. Negative thoughts spreading. That had become so much of my last year. 

You became my realisation. My recovery. 

If a tree falls in the Forrest and nobody is there to hear it does it even make a sound. 

If a person leaves your life and you didn’t notice. Were they really in it. 

I’ll miss you, but what I really miss is a past that no longer exists. And the person you aspired to be. And I can’t wait anymore.

Not when you deem me so dispensable 

I’m happy with the memories. 

I’ll see you about. 

Maybe say Hey... 

xoxo

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Take Care // Project 365 // Day 123

Last night I had many ambitions to get the last train home. And be well rested for today’s 13 hour shift.

Many tequila shots later it had been decided that I wasn’t going for the train.

Last night was effortless fun. Good company, good music and good times.

So whilst this morning I had to take a little extra care. And struggled on. I don’t regret getting my self into that state.

 xoxo

His Masters Voice // Project 365 // Day 71

Most of the time I like to think I have a clue, that I have a few brain cells that get me by. That I’m smart enough.  Not to be confused with being actually smart. But smart enough to get by, people can ask me things and I am not always clueless to what the answer could be.

But I like everyone else am privy to having some rather dipsy moments where my intelligence could and should be questioned.

Now as I have mentioned in previous posts. I have frequented some time in dear old London Town. And Oxford Street where this photo was taken. Is a spot that I have regularly returned to. So I must have passed this before.

But still even as regular to HMV stores my first trip being when I was only a baby and my dad had to kill sometime waiting on my mum in Edinburgh. I was shocked to discover what HMV stood for. Mainly cause I didn’t think it really stood for anything.

I turned round to my mum and said has it always meant that followed  by aww the dog makes sense. That’s smart. I never knew that. And she gave me that look she gives me when I sound like I have had no formal education. And shakes her head.

And I’m in my own wee world snapping up pictures. Cause let’s be fair this signage looks grand.

xoxo

Things Go Wrong // Project 365 // Day 61

“From the moment things go wrong for you (and trust me, they will), there will be someone to tell you that things eventually get better. You will always have that one mantra of hope that repeats in your head over and over again, but sometimes, things don’t get better and you’re left with a hope that now just feels like a lie. I don’t want to lie to you. Sometimes, things suck. Sometimes, they get worse. Sometimes, but only sometimes, they get better. Other times, they just change."

xoxo

The Universe and Me // Project 365 // Day 50

Stop acting so small. 

YOU are the UNIVERSE 

In Ecstatic motion.

Set your life on fire. 

Seek those who fan 

your flames. 

-RUMI

xoxo