New Photos & Realisations: A personal post.

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Edited with “Alex’s Sharpy” and “Red Kisses” (coming soon)
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Edited with ”Alex’s Sharpy” at 50% ”Scarlet Love” at 100%

I’m here, glass of white wine in hand. I’ve had the most lovely day strolling through London, enjoying the sunshine and spending virtually all day in Regent’s Park. It’s very unlike me, to be honest, but for today I was able to turn off the “work woman” within and just focus on enjoying the day.

So I finally come home and realise that I feel so inspired, more inspired than I have felt in a long time. And so, I feel the need to blog.

There’s so much I want to say.

Firstly, I need to document how grateful I am for everything in my life. The idea of “time” and the constant ticking used to haunt me. But now I find it strangely comforting. We are here. Now. And YOU are the only person living this life the way you are, when you are. You are the only YOU there ever was, and ever will be. And that’s a beautiful thing. It’s a miracle.

Even in the park today, just sitting and watching the people. Groups of friends playing games together, sharing food together, attempting to fly kites together. Dogs running free, chasing balls and sticks and the likes. Lovers cuddled up close, big smiles, sharing a blanket.

I felt like I was watching a movie that no one else will ever have the pleasure to see again.

It just feels beautiful to be alive. I am so focused on the beauty of the NOW. I’ve never really done that before. I’ve always focused on the future, “When I have this I will finally feel that” .. you know? But it’s kind of like a never ending circle of “when and ifs”, like a hamster running in an exercise ball. The many books I have been reading lately have been the main inspiration behind all of this new way of thinking and seeing the world. They have been pointing out the importance of taking life AS IT IS and not for what it was, or what you think it will be one day. Just enjoying your life for what it is today.

Do you focus on the now?

I sat in the park today. No book in hand. Just my sister in tow. We laid on a pretty pink blanket, had a bit of a picnic, and relaxed.

I focused on the now.

Not on what I have to do tomorrow, or what I should be doing for the business.

No. I focused on the now.

I admired the beautiful sunshine highlighting the gorgeous green in the leaves above. I admired the wind and how it played with the leaves, almost poetically, like they were dancing specifically for me.

It’s just that … life is so beautiful.

And it’s too easy to ignore it.

Too easy to forget what a miracle we all are.

Too easy to forget what a miracle we live in.

And it’s one thing to stop and notice, “oh, hey! it’s pretty cool that i’m alive!” … but it’s a totally different ball game when you truly FEEL that gratitude with every cell of your body.

So today.. I dare you to think about it. I dare you to think about it, and then FEEL the gratitude of life as it is right this very second. (that’s a tweetable!)

YOU ARE ALIVE. And the most important moment of your life? It’s the one that you are in RIGHT NOW! Enjoy it. Read the words on this page. Feel the words on this page. Admire the beauty of the words on this page.

And when you close this page and go about your day, see things as if you were seeing them for the first time. That seems to be the easiest way for me to get into that state of gratitude for the “now”.