Romanticising Your Life 101

I swear I am the worst at planning blog posts. I was originally meant to write about a book I'm reading, An Introduction To Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell but then I got too distracted with some other books I was reading and ended up having an existential crisis about the Mind-Body problem instead. Then, I was going to write a survival guide to mercury retrograde but then remembered that some people find astrology stupid so I just thought I'd save that for the next retrograde. Life hasn't really been feeling very romantic lately so I thought I should write a bit in order to improve it. I have been seeing way too many edits of Andrew Garfield (my all time favourite Spider-Man) describing Emma Stone as a "shot of espresso" and while I've never been described as a shot of espresso, I have been called a gremlin by a roadman because I refused to give him my snap and I think it's probably the best I'd get around here. Anyways, onto the actual post:

Why Should you Romanticse your Life?

The answer to this is pretty simple, romanticising your life just makes it better. Imagining you are in your favourite book where every action you do is influenced by the oh so exciting world of fiction just makes going through rough times a bit more bearable. 

Sitting late at night, trying to study for a test? Just make a cup of hot tea, play some rain sounds and pretend you are living out your dark academia dreams in Oxford or that you are about to come up with the next life changing theory for the betterment of humanity.

Living is such a beautiful thing and sometimes I feel like we don't really understand that because we are influenced by the modern world and it's ways of making us feel as though we need to be insecure or else we are seen as vain, or that in order to be happy, you need to have material possessions. The reality is, material possessions can bring some form of temporary happiness (dopamine) but can never really unlock that innate feeling of contentment, or feeling as though things won't go completely downhill, just because you weren't able to keep up with the current trends of the world.

The feeling of appreciating the world just for the sake of how nature makes you feel relaxed or that the smell of hot coffee makes you feel comforted or that being around your friends gets you excited to wake up early and leave the house which you would normally not want to do on schooldays is one of the best things I’ve managed to accomplish in life. I can't really describe how it feels but romanticising your life just makes you feel so complete and one with the universe. It's like looking up in the night sky and seeing constellations and realising that the world is actually amazing and you have an inexplicable feeling of being at home. Sometimes I just take photos of random things just because they look pretty, even if it seems weird to others. Like the mismatched collection of random philosophy books my dad has, I find something so intriguing about looking at a literal pile of books which I wouldn't even be able to fully understand.

Understanding. It's such a weird concept. Two people could look at the exact same thing but have a complete different thought process or understanding of it. Do we ever really understand anything if everyone's understanding of life is different? This fits in with romanticising your life because I feel like people judge whether their life is "worth" romanticising based on what they see in the media or the people around them. The thing is, every single person is so different, in fact we could not be more different and we cannot simply decide that our life is not worth romanticising because someone else's life looks "better". For all you know, that person might look at your life and think "damn I wish I was them".

The essence of what I'm trying to say is that life's rough. Life's also short. Spend time doing the things you love or somehow making it a thing you love, even if it includes using a figment of your imagination because it just makes you appreciate the smaller things in life and makes you feel more grateful for the life you live. Honestly the main reason I wrote this post is because every single one of you deserve to be happy, not for your parents, not for your friends, but for you. You deserve to be happy and I find that romanticising life makes it that little bit easier to be happier in life.

I hope you enjoyed this week's post, I changed my mind about 4 times about what I was going to write about this week but in the end I usually try to intuitively pick topics which I feel people may need to hear. This post was also inspired by the book "It Only Happens In The Movies" by Holly Bourne which I reread recently. Book boys just really set the standard, you know. I was talking to my friend earlier this week and she told me "straight boys need to read some wattpad, they need some proper education" and honestly, I could not agree more with that so I needed to include that in this post, whether it relates or not. I'm fully convinced that at the rate I get through books, my standards are only just getting higher and higher to the point where I'll live in a library with 20 cats within the next 5 years. Anyways, I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful week ahead and hopefully I'll see you next week, love you guys <33