Have you ever heard of this guy called Beau Miles? He’s this Australian guy on YouTube and, well, I adore his stuff, his content, his art. He’s a sports nut, yes, but that’s not what his channel is really about, at least not for me.
Every time I watch a video of his, he lifts me up. He has such a romantic view of the world, always articulating himself in such a poetic, authentic way. He takes reality and he shares reality; there’s no varnish except for the grateful attitude that he helps the viewer to rediscover.
I need to get romantic with life again because recently the relationship has gotten stale.
With stresses around moving home, anxieties around not knowing where I or my friends will be in even a year’s time, worries around my knees, frustrations around not following my routines, I’ve not been viewing life or myself in a positive way recently. At the same time, I have increased my understanding of myself and my needs. That’s an emotionally intense experience, and it’s one where I still have a lot to work on (but a lot less than I used to).
I was watching one of Beau’s videos this morning and realised that I need to remind myself to see the world in that Beau Miles kind of way. I need to get romantic with life again because recently the relationship has gotten stale.
It’s not like I haven’t been in love with life before, I’ve been in love lots of times. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been transferring my blogs over to Word documents so that I’ll always have them, and I’ve seen that love shimmering.
Whilst flicking through my posts, I’ve spotted some brilliant ideas – like the Ask A Stranger series in Life or the Monthly Motivations in N.E.S.T – that have helped others to ponder about some of the wonderful things that life has to offer. Although I don’t currently have the will to relaunch those pieces of content, there is something that I think I would like to bring back.
I think that my most recent Musing, the blog post ‘Time’ is one of the best examples of my romantic relationship with life. And as I sit in my parents’ kitchen, looking at the greenery through the window that I forgot to appreciate because it was always just there, I think that I would like to use my Musings series to reignite my love of life.
part of what makes life so astonishingly, unboundingly, unbelievably fantastic is the connections that we create along the way.
I’d like to intentionally spend my Sundays to remind myself of the deep beauty that life has to offer. To be genuinely grateful for an incredible part of life, big or small or anywhere in between and use my words to dip, weave, fly, swim, stream, course through these parts and remind myself what it means to be in love with life in the hopes that you take something from it too.
And if you do take something from it? Well, I’d so appreciate you sharing it with me, particularly in the form of a voice note, phone call or video chat. Because part of what makes life so astonishingly, unboundingly, unbelievably fantastic is the connections that we create along the way.
I can’t wait to speak to you soon.
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