Text it out!

Last weekend one of my nearest and dearest friends and I were having a particularly bad time in our respective cities. We both shared the unexplainable upset and melancholy with each other and texted our way thought it.

After having a good cry, I decided to cheer myself up by looking for pretty images on FFFFound and I came across this image.

Ok, so it's not pretty, actually its a little dark but it’s interesting to me, because, sometimes, this is how I feel (other than the very last line in italics, that’s a little too teen angst for me. If I had any sort of photo editing skills I might attempt to remove it.), especially when things are horrible in one part of my life. It doesn’t seem to matter that things are going brilliantly in any other part of my life, as soon as something bad happens in one part of my life, I get tunnel vision and want to flee away, or simply not exist! Usually I recover from this by burying my head under the covers until it’s absolutely necessary to leave the house, like to go to my day job. And by then I and usually appreciate the simple things in life again, like the sun raising while I walk to the train station in the morning or the fresh smell of the cold night air as I walk home the train a night.

I don’t think people like to own their bad feeling too much, it seems to be something the most people are ashamed of. I am too, for the most part, but when I read that image I realised that if we talked about it out like my friend and I did over the weekend then maybe things would seems a little lighter a little sooner.

And, just so you know, my nearest and dearest friend and I both got very good news this week, so things are looking up!

(Yeah... the balloons are a little too much for me too)