Relax...

Everyone has their own way of relaxing, I thought about this on Wednesday when I was sitting in the bus after having cycled 2 km through the pouring rain, it hadn't rained like that for a really long time, and even though it annoyed me because I had to cycle and walk around in it, very few things make me relax like sitting inside with an open window, smelling and listening to the rain, preferably with a cup of tea or hot chocolate.

I've always felt more relaxed around water, so rain makes me very relaxed. On the other hand I don't like lying out in the sun most people do, the whole sunbathing thing just annoys, it's probably because I get really bad sunburns.

I also really feel relaxed if I'm reading a book, the ability to remove myself from my own little life every once in a while is really good. Reading books allows us to live someone else's life for a bit and that way we can get to live our dreams without actually doing so, on the other hand we can also read a book about bad things and afterwards feel happy as we look back on it thinking "at least it's not that bad".

Turtle-Chris!

Another thing that makes me really calm is ”being creative”, if I have some project going I generally feel more relaxed, it's the feeling of doing something I like doing like painting, drawing or beading while actually creating something, that's very satisfying in a way.

Other things make me relax as well, sometimes even more, for example the hoodie Chris gave me, whenever I feel stressed or anything the like I'll cuddle up with it and breathe in the smell of him. I also have a turtle-plushie that lies next to my pillow on my bed.

We all have those things that make us relax, we just need to remember that everything is okay...