March Thoughts
Hello!
I'm a little late this week but I won't apologise because I was actually visiting my sister and my 3 nephews on Monday and Tuesday and I felt that my blog could wait a day or so. I'm trying to stop apologising for things I don't need to apologise for and I'm not doing amazingly well but hey, there's one successful attempt.
It's quite a way through March now (Make it stop!!) and I said at the start of the year that I would dedicate one post a month to all the things I did well in the past month. So, I have finally got around to writing the post about February. I mean, better late than never, right? So, what went well in February?
I really tried to chill out about site views. January was mad, I had so many hits, and so much love. But with that comes a pressure, I felt like I had to do it all over again, and I don't. Readers fluctuate, the numbers go up and down, and realistically, I've only been doing this for a few months so I'm hardly going to magically turn into Zoella overnight! Once I began to ignore the site views a bit more, I started to notice all the support I've been receiving. I want to say a huge thank you to all of you who read any of my posts in February, thank you for liking them, sharing them, and for your continually kind comments. I am truly grateful, and it really sucks that I can't access what you write when you share. Though, I'm quite a sensitive soul so perhaps it's best that I can't see!
Speaking of appreciating people, I reconnected with a lot of my friends in February. I wish I could say that I did this for no reason in particular, but I didn't. Unfortunately, it took someone that I had thought was a close friend to turn her back on me for me to see all the other fantastic people I have in my life.
It's funny actually, when it happened I was understandably very upset but Joe turned round and said "but you're fine, you have so many friends." and I didn't believe him. But he was right. And actually, I've made some new friends as well who are equally as great. So again, this is a thank you. Thank you to all my friends for sticking around, meeting up, listening to my crap, and being generally great people.
So, lesson learnt: sometimes things that seem like the end of the world can actually be blessings in disguise.
On a slightly lighter note, I had a lot of fun with makeup in February. I've always enjoyed applying makeup and I think I'll do a post on it because I don't wear it for men, or to be seen as more attractive, I genuinely just like to play about with it. For example today, I'm wearing purple eyeshadow with bright gold eyeliner because why not? It's been nice to just play with colour and style in the morning, and I've actually found it to be really helpful on the days when I've not been so great. I think it's been a part of trying to take myself a little less seriously and have a bit more fun.
And I think the last thing to mention for today is that the long distance worked very well in February and I felt kind of happier with it. Of course, it goes in peaks and troughs as it's not as easy right now as we're both super busy but February was a definite peak, and I think it's important to recognise that.
I think that's about it. I don't have any great pearls of wisdom although unfortunately, Stephen Hawking passed away today so I'll leave you with some of his wisdom to mark his life and to carry along with you when looking after your mental health:
"however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
Stephen Hawking 8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018
Lots of Love,
Sarah xxx
