“Only you can work out how to appreciate these days alone, when you are only responsible for the work you do and the food you eat, and the 10,000 steps you take.”
Well, first, take a breath. Like, a proper one. A breath that comes from the core of you, deep down from the meat of you –. And then let it go. There is a relentlessness to modern life, isn’t there? A feeling that we must always be pushing, working, praying for the next thing, the thing that will save us, or fulfil us, or fix our skin, or finally prove every dickish enemy wrong.
I’m sorry. People talk about “living in the moment” regularly, and when they do, it is always, without fail, sickly and annoying. The phrase plonks onto the table reeking of dewberry body spray and old yoga mats, and you are perfectly within your rights to respond to it with your tightest smile as you reach for the sweet escape of your phone. But much as it pains me to write this , it’s a skill you – most of us – can benefit from.
What would it take for you to enjoy where you are right now? How can I help? Well, I can recommend tricks from the dewberry body spray realm of solutions, the