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Good Evening Blog World,
Today I feel okay. Hoorah! For a while I didnât âfeelâ. And now Iâd say Iâve reached âokayâ land. Nice, bland âokayâ land. At one point, even better then okay. I laughed. Properly. I had a good time. This was greatâŚItâs good to laugh.
At school Sophie and I always used to worry weâd get smile lines at an earlier age than weâd want them because we were always in fits of laughter. To be fair these have definitely appeared around my eyes but Iâm totally pro these lines as signs of pure living! ⌠At the ripe old age of 26 đ
Iâve heard thereâs classes out there where you just join and laugh for the whole class. Doing different laughter styles apparently. Iâve always wanted to go. Must be such a belly work out.
The laughter today reminded me of how much time I used to and to be fair still do have a good olâ chuckle. Never did I think Iâd be writing a blog post on this topic and itâs actually bringing me quite a bit of joy in doing just so! Despite all my battles with mental health problems my sense of humour has got me through Iâd say the most. The ability to laugh at myself and to crack jokes even when struggling is quite a strength and would almost definitely feature in a top reason I think my partner is with me!
It also helps that at work weâve been focusing on the importance of ânormalâising the topic of mental health but also what it looks like to have a mental health problem. A lot of us are smiley happy people. (Read in đ¤ âShiny happy peopleâ song voice ofcourse).
A bundle of joyâ is how someone once described me. I love that. I associate âbundleâ with a little bunny rabbit and a bunny rabbit with âcuteâ and hey presto Iâm like totally a happy bunny rabbit! Wahey.
Today is the first day in a long time Iâm feeling a little more me. Still a bit of a mediocre version with a lesser capacity to âfeelâ than I would like. But a bit more human. Or bunny đ° ..đ
Iâm not going to be overly positive though because as the feeling itself is not too strong I can only be optimistic that I might be on the mend. A number up on the old feeling depressed to feeling well scale. I think thatâs a cause for celebration though. Go me đ Iâm still in annoying (most likely for others rather than me as Iâm actually totally fine with it) cancelling social plans mode because work and rest is all Iâm realistically able to cope with at the moment but Iâll get there. (âIâll get thereâ â itâs my most used expression when Iâm a bit perky about recovery â oo recovery â I should really do a post on thatâŚit means different things to different people and a subject I rather like!).
Any hey, on this positive note Iâll leave it here. Have a laugh tonight â watch something funny, call your humorous friends and remember little things that make you happy. (Another post coming shortly looking at the difference between pleasure and happiness inspired by a co-worker of mine).
Little bursts of laughter,
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