Throwback.
It's been a while folks, but hey, 'how YOU doin'? (a bit of Tribbiani charm to lighten the mood)
So, I've been working on a joint blogpost/youtube video thing for a while, but the sheer amount of setbacks solely as a result of windows 'shitty' maker has caused massive delays. Therefore the blogpost has just been sitting, rotting, fermenting in drafts, for what seems like half a century. Rather than just not publishing anything, I decided to share a lil throwback article I wrote in year 12, when I use to write for the school newspaper.
Bonus points if you can name what song the title is from...well without further ado, enjoy.
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Twist the structure of your average day
You wake up. Grudgingly scrape off your Pj’s. Hopefully, fingers crossed, you have a shower. scrape on your uniform and drag yourself to another day at school. Each day starts to become like a dull rerun of Top Gear on Bravo; everything seems so gloomy, so dull, so blah. Well I don’t know about you but I don’t want to lead blah life. So in this article we’ll go through 3 steps to make your life and your time at school less blah and more fafafun! (fafafun is not an adjective you should ever use.)
Step 1: Alter your mindset.
Being a moody brat isn’t beneficial for anyone, including yourself. Have a positive outlook on life. I know i know, it’s easier to verbalise these things than to actually construct the change. But you know what they say, you know, those people that say stuff and things- practice makes perfect! First thing you should do when you wake up, instead of moaning, is to tell yourself “today will be a great day”. You may feel silly, in fact you will feel like a loon, but articulating optimistic words does help to uplift your spirits. It’s like sowing a tiny seed of positivity into the start of your day, injecting a spark of colour into the monotonous grey English mornings.
Another thing you could try is to play a particular song that you know has a positive effect on you or that may resurface blissful memories, in my case that’s Mr Polite by the Jungle Giants but sometimes I do love to pop on some classic quality tunes by Mr Marvin Gaye himself. But guys i do understand that it’s not every day that you can fabricate a happy mood, and that’s understandable, that’s life, the issue is when you have an incessant negative mood.
One last thing you could try is to read some quotes. This was a great advice given to me by a close friend. When I’m feeling a bit down, I navigate my way to Google and look up some ‘inspirational’ or ‘funny’ quotes and it really does help me focus on what’s important and my outlook on life.
Step 2: insert and apple or two in your lunch bag.
Ok, I can’t really advice you on this one without being labelled the world’s largest hypocrite. But I’ll do it anyways because, well, I can. There was a period in my life where I actually made a conscious effort to consume food that wasn’t 80% chemicals and unknown substances, and let me tell you i felt pretty amazeballs; which beats any feeling i could have acquired from eating those calorie infested cheeseballs! Eating healthy or at least eating your five a day...or at least digesting some form of fruit or veg in the time span of a month, really does play a large part in improving your mood. Don’t get me wrong i enjoy the ‘tasty’ muffins from the WCGS ‘cafe’ as much as the next fella, but as ‘they’ say an apple a day keeps the doctors away.
Step 3: Do not become one with the sofa.
Again, world’s largest hypocrite. It really is hard to take your own advice, but you know, we’re all in this together...
Once we know
That we are
We're all stars
And we see that
Sorry HSM interlude…
Anyways, yeah don’t get into a full time three way relationship with your sofa and TV/laptop. Mainly because they’re inanimate objects incapable of love, but also because they prevent you from actually being productive, obstructing you from not only doing your homework and tackling your responsibilities, but from having a life, from doing actual things; for example TALKING TO HUMANS. Take some advice from someone with first class experience, isolating yourself and watching the entire 3 series of Sherlock again, no matter how entertaining, will be of no benefit to you. The possibilities are endless as to what we can achieve if we attempt to lift our backsides and divorce our sofa (we should’ve gotten a prenup). Get a hobby. Eastenders can wait, you won’t miss much anyway, apart from another criminal conviction, the birth of a new baby and a alien invasion or two- basically, a typical Monday episode.
I hope you can at least take something from my ramblings, and start to live life less ‘blah’ and more ‘fafafun’. (And again don’t use fafafun in your coursework.)
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*redeem your bonus points at your nearest oxygen bank.
Tea-day xox
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