Hey everyone,

I hope you are all doing well, especially considering what is happening around the globe at the moment. COVID-19 is a word that is frightening to most and has a had the most restrictive effects on life at we know it. I am not writing this to create more hysteria as I believe a lot of media outlets are loving the panic is has caused as it creates great headlines and keeps them in a job. I am writing this because as much craziness we have all experienced lately, it has opened up my eyes to the real world.

We may not be able to see the game or go to that concert we had so been looking forward to the past six months, but are lucky as a society that a lot of us are able to carry on working from home, we still have power to refrigerate some of that food you may or may not have stocked piled. We can still turn on the heater and boil the kettle. We still have our phones to pick up and call all our loves ones, we can Facetime those people you can’t go without seeing on the daily. I feel very grateful this year the big year 2020 that I have my family and friends, that we have food and we have each other to get through this time.

I hope that something does come from all of this and that is the simplistic meaning of life. Happiness and love and be loved. Life is beautiful and we all take it for granted at times and we are living in such a materialistic age and I do really hope that people will find a grounding in themselves from all this, so instead of spending all day, taking photos to have that one picture to receive over 100k likes on that post, have dinner with you Mum and Dad, go and have that date night that you have been putting off for a while or have that picnic in your backyard with your best friend indulging the best of foods, laughing and listening to music.

It’s the memories that people have of us are really the only things we leave behind once our time is up. The people I love and miss the most were not rich in wealth, nor did they have a high social status, they gave their kindness, love and their time to others creating relationships that have withstood their passing. When thinking about those people you still feel that sadness that they are no longer here, but also feel joy that you had the pleasure of loving and receiving love from that person.

We all want to be loved and missed regardless of our ages when it’s our time, but to make that happen, you have to put in the work, you don’t just have a great relationship with someone, it is created from the high and lows you have endured in life and how you have handled them coming together and finding a forgiving mutual ground for you both to stand on. It’s being there for one another without judgement.

So, once this is all over, I hope that there is a lasting effect of global kindness and that people will have stronger relationships with their family and with their friends. That they will give and not expect to receive and that we don’t take anyone we love for granted and we appreciate this thing we call life, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we see things how we want to, it’s a choice! I choose to see the world in colour, love my family and cherish those around me and give my kindness to all and lift those who need it. I will appreciate that first mouthful of food, sitting in a noisy restaurant surrounded by people and I choose to smile and laugh every day. We can do this, we just need to work together.

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week, be true and kind to one another and please remember… Every day is a new day to try, you can quit your day job, just don’t ever give up on yourself or your dream.

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