The Hopefuls :)

Heyyyyy :) 

Today I would like to talk about The Hopefuls :) I frequently talk about the hopefuls, hopeful notes and Carrie Hope Fletcher on this blog, mainly because it has, over the last year ; become a massive part of my life <3 Many big YouTuber's have followers which are a fandom but the hopeful's are more of a lifestyle choice in which they choose to spread kindness, positivity and love to strangers and any individual that needs it, which in my opinion is everyone because everyone no matter what should be shown kindness because kindness is a reflection of you not the recipient <3 Around a year ago I discovered Carrie Hope Fletcher's YouTube channel, ItsWayPastMyBedTime . As a direct result I discovered a kind, compassionate young woman who's loving words were enough to inspire every person who watched her video's and to make them believe in their dreams deemed 'unachievable', once more :) That person was and is Carrie Hope Fletcher . 

The Hopefuls are widely recognised as Carrie's followers . We are Mainly named so after her middle name 'Hope' but I and many other hopeful's think there is a lot more to it than that . There is no set definition of what or who the Hopeful's are but I asked hopefuls of the hopeful forum ( more on that later ) and from replies it's clear to see it means something different to every individual hopeful but it couldn't be more the same . For me, the hopefuls are people who are trying to show the same compassion to strangers and everyone around them as they have seen Carrie do and they are hopeful for a better, more positive, loving and accepting society as a result of that . It's clear to see that from projects such as the " Things I'll never say " and " The Hopeful Notes" All we want is kindness, happiness and a better world . 

hopeful

ˈhəʊpfʊl,-f(ə)l/

adjective

1. 1.

   feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event.

   "a hopeful sign"

   synonyms:

   optimistic, full of hope, confident, positive, buoyant, sanguine, bullish,cheerful, assured, expectant, anticipative, disposed to look on the bright side; More

noun

1. 1.

   a person likely or hoping to succeed

1. "promotion hopefuls Huddersfield"

Above is the definition of Hopeful I found when I typed it into Google . As I mentioned previously every hopeful defines it differently, but here's my definition : 

The Hopefuls 

1. Followers of Carrie Hope Fletcher spreading kindness as inspired by her projecting happiness and never-ending optimism about the future and pursuing her dreams .
2. A group of people hopeful to change the world for better with kindness without one leader but a group of friends ; Carrie is not a leader but part of us , she also wants to spread happiness just like us .
3. Hopefuls are pirates at sea with the world at their feet sailing on waves made of stars. Whom take only sadness from the ships of people passing by. On their travels, however long or difficult their own voyage is, they sprinkle a shimmering glitter into the dark ocean . It may not be much but Hopefuls a happy with the thought that maybe, just maybe ; it might be enough to give hope to those lost at sea <3

One of my favourite things about the hopefuls is how lovely and supportive they are as a community <3 You only have to read a few threads on the hopeful forum and you will see the love and kindness they project . I've never seen such a entirely un-judgemental group on the internet :) If you ever need support or advice just go to the hopeful forum because I promise they will do their best and will make you feel so so welcome <3 

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) Stay Hopeful ^-^

( My best friend laughed at me when I called that last one 'the cute little internet face thingy-ma-bob' hehe ) 

Carrie Hope Fletcher has changed me and my life for the better <3 I have been inspired to be a better happier person and she pressed that button inside me that reminded me that I can achieve my dreams . You can do anything however impossible it seems... I mean anyone can do the possible, so where's the fun in that ? :) I've never been happier than I am right now, despite all the problems I'm facing. I am determined to stay hopeful because nothing makes me happier than watching a stranger pick up a hopeful note that I left and knowing that maybe just maybe it might be enough to give hope to those lost at 

sea <3 

Much love, Love much-ly 

DontBurstMyBubble xxx

I'm feeling emotional :')

Hello there :) 

This isn't what I'm mean to be doing ... I should be asleep because I've just got back from a lovely holiday in Ireland and I'm exhausted but If I am going to write a blog post I should definitely be catching up on the " Smiley Sunday " posts that I have missed whilst being away ( I've got two to write :/ ) However, I have just come over very very emotional ... I'm crying . I'm not sad though, or upset just emotional :') So why ? Why am I sat in my room crying slightly confused if not slightly happy .. ? Well the answer is that I don't know but as I'm feeling emotional, there are a lot of thoughts in my head , thoughts I want people to hear because they matter to me .. and I feel like they need hearing ( wow I'm REALLY tired aha ... I mean just look at that excellent wording ;) ) 

Firstly I thought I'd explain how I ended up feeling this randomly emotional ... okay well, as I've said I came back from a holiday in Ireland a few hours ago and whilst in Ireland I missed people an awful lot, esspecially my friends and boyfriend because I like being surrounded by people who understand all the aspects of my life, know how I'm feeling and how to make me feel better and good about myself .. that's what friendship is and I often refer to my friends as my un-biological family because they are everything to me .. I mean my best friend practically lives with me half the time aha :) I wouldn't change any of them for the world <3 So I had a build up of love for my friends whilst I was gone from realising how much I loved and respected them :) Love is a very strong emotion and I feel it an awful lot and often get it mixed up with compassion that I feel for strangers and this is definitely not going where I planned ... I'm sorry I think this is just going to be a vent tonight but If you understand or take anything from it then let me know but I'm very tired so sorry about this aha :) Anyways, I love strangers or I'm filled with compassion for them , this is something I find difficult to distinguish between because the compassion I feel for strangers is so strong . In my head I see a person, a human life that is precious and amazing walking down the street. I don't know this person but that's the beauty of it because I want them to know the things in my head because I don't know what that stranger is going through , I don't know if they are the happiest person on earth ( in which case I want to join them and show them that they are right to be happy and almost congratulate them on their wonderful perception of the world ) or they might be suicidal ( In which case I want to help them, show them some kindness just to let them know that the world does have some good in ) . Regardless of the persons situation, they do not know my and likely never will , the only judgement they could have on me is by looking at me and I can't do much with that rather than where a top that says " hi, I love you and I hope you're having a wonderful day but If not I hope it gets better " and as a top like that would be quite difficult to come by .. I decided to smile at every stranger I make eye contact with to let them know that I'm happy and want them to be happy, so there is still something good in the world <3 It's also because of this that I write hopeful notes to strangers to say the things I would say to them if it was socially acceptable to go up to them in the street , I want the world to be a better, happy place and I want people to know that it isn't that bad no matter what they're going through, It is definitely worth living in :) 

This really isn't what I was going to talk about but I guess the reason I'm suddenly feeling even more attached to strangers is that in Ireland something AMAZING happened ! When I smiled at people... THEY SMILED BACK :D It actually makes my day every time someone smiles back because people smiling just makes the world a nicer place because every time you smile you actually feel better because it realises " Feel good" endorphins so now because of one simple action I made towards a person walking down the street, the worlds a very slightly happier place ... okay I do realise I sound made but I just feel so ... I don't know really . To be honest I wan't crying until I watched my idol,  Carrie Hope Fletchers, most recent video ( I'll link to it here <3 ) I don't know what it was about the video but she was talking about people thanking her . As a result I realised how much Carrie has effected my life. Since I started watching  "Itswaypastmybedtime"  I've become more positive, learnt to see the world in a different way, started to try and show others this way of seeing and started leaving hopeful notes because Carrie's hopeful notes inspired me to start being confident enough to show kindness to strangers and my life would still be stuck in sadness and thoughts that I would just grow up and work in a job that could pay the bills but now I believe in myself and that's not arrogant . Self belief is important and I'm going to have to write a whole post about that but Carrie pressed that button and I am so grateful to her <3 

I Have no idea what I have just written .. I'm sorry if my rambling was pointless , I'm aware the grammar was awful and the  punctuation that is pretty much non existent but I'm so tired <3 Please let me know if you understood any of that .. I'm sorry If I just wasted your time , we'll be back to normal soon :) 

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 

I hope you're having a good holiday / life because you deserve one and I like you :) 

Much love, Love Much-ly 
DontBurstMyBubbleXx 

P.s. Today's quote is : " Keep Smiling and Stuff" - Dan Howell ( Danisnotonfire ) because it sounds as vauge, confused and relevant as I feel :) That sentence didn't even make sense aha ... I'm going to go to bed <3 

#100happydays: day 38 ( Friendship Families )

Good Afternoon :) 

I will admit that Kevin the Llama and Dave the Unicorn and exactly
quite part of the friendship group physically but they're with us mentally
 and that good enough for us because we couldn't find a real llama and 
a unicorn that we we're aloud to keep at 15 :(  but girls are allowed
 to dream .. right ? ;) 

Today I struggled to find something good for my #100happydays and I thought and thought but I just couldn't find anything that I could say ... and then I looked at a picture that my friend drew of our whole friendship group but as a family whilst I was finishing off the drawing of me and my boyfriend <3 It really made me smile because I realised that I had been looking for something new to make my day better but now I can see I had my friends who were so important to me <3 They always make me smile whether we're laughing with each other or at each other we always know were only joking and I love having people who I can go to and they will make me happy no matter what and I really do love them for it :) I also love them for being them because they're all awesome ... I mean they're idiots ( like me ) but they're the best idiots I could ever wish to be friends with :) I just want to say that if you're friends don't love you exactly the way you are then please try and find some that do because you will be so much happier and I truly want you to be happy <3 You're worth feeling loved and true friends will make you feel loved . I know they can be really difficult to find especially if you nervous about meeting new people but I find if you just take a deep breath and go for it they'll never know you were scared :) If you want to read my tips on meeting new people you can find them here :)   I seriously recommend joining a youth group or something because even tho it was absolutely terrifying going the first time it built my confidence massively in the end and now I talk to people and make friends a lot easier even if I still get nervous :) It's okay to be nervous tho, it just means that you care about what you're doing <3 Carrie Hope Fletcher recently ( okay not that recently but still not that long ago ;) ) did a video called "Easier Said Than Done" which is all about how that phrase holds you back ... this is very true and in the video Carrie talks about replacing that saying with " Nothing worth doing is ever going to be easy " She goes into a lot more detail than me and explains it really well because well Carrie's just generally amazing like that and as usual she is so so right <3 So please check out her video on that because it really make you think :)

I found this quote about friendship and just thought it was nice so today's quote of the day is : 

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” 
― Albert Camus

Sooo I'm not entirely sure what that was about ... It was just lots of feelings on true friends I guess and how grateful I am for mine :) If you have true friends do something to show them that you love them because well it's just nice and it'l make you both feel good :) I like to take my friends cookies every once in a while because we all like cookies ... and it means I get an excuse to eat cookies too so it's win win aha <3 

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley
Just wanted to remind you quickly before I go that you're awesome :) 
Much Love, Love Much-ly
DontBurstMyBubble xxx

#100happydays: day 18 ( Fresh Veg and Fresh Starts )

 

Good Evening :)

 

I hope your all okay :) I'm not going to lie I haven't had a great day. In fact it was a rather stressful, borderline tears , I'm sick of all this kinda day . Everyone has them , we've all been stressed out and found our selves with too much work to do with not enough time to do it ... and watch YouTube ;) It is important when you have a lot of work to try and make sure you really do still have time for you . Even if your making time to see your friends, finish coursework and pursue all five million hobbies ... you still need down time for you and just you because you are important . I promise you that :) So in order to avoid days like mine because I'm ever so slightly, extremely unorganised ; I recommend you make a list ... no, actually I recommend you make a colour coded list because that's more cheerful and colourful :) If you write out each day of the week and underneath each one put in a different colour , when your seeing your friends, when you have exams or work due in , when your doing your out of school things like cadets and youth groups and then in big capital letters write in " ME TIME" because important things have capital letters , that's why you have them in your name :) If you can't find time for " me time" then drop something because seriously it's so important . You might not see it now but it will build up and your going to get upset and stressed out and well like I did today and I really don't want that for you <3 Sadness can't always be prevented but sometimes.. a lot of the time it can and I sure intend to try because being sad is no fun which means no laughter and where would we be without laughter aha :) So if your feeling like everything's getting too much; try making a brightly coloured list because :

 

1) Having a plan no matter what the situation or what for always makes me feel better because I know what I'm doing so there's no need to worry about what's going to happen and how to handle it .

 

2) All the bright colours in that place will make you feel happy .. well they make me happy , maybe I'm just weird . What am I talking about ? I take that back actually. I am definitely weird and I am proud to be so ;)

 

Additionally I decided that I had two options when I came home rather distressed from spending the day buried in what appeared to resemble a unclimbable mountains worth of in completed course work

I could either mope around, eat lots of chocolate and song write for a few hours and then cry . Or :) I could put on nice clothes, do my make up, pick myself up and go to my singing lesson like I was meant to and then come home and exercise until I'd released enough natural endorphins to make me feel less like a hopeless mess and more like a young woman who's got the power to take control of how she feels and choose how to cope with the situation . We can all do this I know that it's hard but we all have the power to say , Okay I know today wasn't great in fact it was awful but I don't like feeling like this so why should I ?   From there you can get up and turn your day around and at least make it so there was something positive :) It's because of this logic I chose to go with the second choice in reaction to a not so good day . I went and had what was actually a great singing lesson and started to learn a new song ( The Wizard and I from wicked if your interested)  This instantly picked up my mood because singing is my passion ( despite how much I love playing drums as I mention in a post the other day Your Life, Your Passions ) I then came home, finished writing a song that I started a while ago and then I decided I fancied a fresh start :) Whenever I have a really bad day I always like to have a fresh start to kick me ( in the nicest possible way ) back into my positivity bubble ;)

 

As a result I turned to one of my best friends .. The stepper ;) which is my #100happydays picture today :) This Is probably my favourite method of indoor exercise at home because It doesn't take to much effort to the point where it hurts but after an hour on this I tend to feel a fair bit better and more enthusiastic :) As I previously mentioned I have lost a stone and a half over the last year because I had very low confidence and it was something I wanted to do for me . I am now making the push for a final half stone... I have been making this push since Christmas and it's really not working . Why? because I'm not trying I'm at the stage where I just want the weight to go away but believe me that's not how it works ;)  If you want to lose weight or become more toned firstly I just want to say , do it for you . Don't let anyone make you feel rubbish about yourself and then go on some starvation diet that doesn't work and will make you feel rubbish about yourself . I will tell you now starving yourself does not lose weight . Your body will panic because it won't know when your next meal is coming therefore causing it to store fat and If for some reason it does work , It wont last . The weight will come back on . Don't even try it. Please be sensible, as long as you're happy and healthy then nothing else matters to be honest :) Carrie Hope Fletcher did a great video on this that I will link to here . I lost weight over a year , it was slow but it's still gone because I did it for me and I was sensible :) Now I want to work on my strength and tone up a lil bit because I genuinely have the upper body strength of a squirrel ... a baby squirrel . But I'm doing it for me . So Today's going to be a fresh start I know snacking is my worst enemy because I'm guilty of eating when I'm not hungry, a lot haha :) It is difficult to judge when your full but you can learn to do it . Lots of the time I eat for the sake of it , mainly because I'm bored so now I've decided to keep things like cut up peppers and cherry tomatoes in the fridge ready so that if I really insist on mindless eating  then I can mindlessly eat fresh veg that's low in calories and doing me some good :)

 

So I'm going to  try and build in exercising on the stepper at least one or two times a week , maybe once a week on the running machine and I really want to start swimming again when I can find time for that :) I will let you know If I find any workout routines that I think are good and let me know if you have any suggestions . I'm currently looking at song workouts which sounds quite nice to do so I will keep you updated on that :)

 

So What I'm saying is if you are feeling down . It's hard but I know you can chose to make you feel better :) As we learn from Captain Jack Sparrow

 

"The problem is not the problem , The problem is your attitude about the problem "

 

This is kinda a harsh way to put it but it's true :) So please Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :)

I know you can do this , I know I've already given a quote today but I'm now in a good mood so you can have two just for today ;)

 

" It's just a bad day, not a bad life "

 

I hope your feeling better if you weren't feeling good

Much love, Love Much-ly

DontBurstMyBubble xxx

 

P.s. It's going to be okay <3

#100happydays: day 17 ( Let's talk dragons )

Good evening :) 

Oh dear me, I'm very tired this is the second post I've written tonight as I didn't post yesterday so I decided to write two short one's today for fear of letting my not existent readers down haha ( If you actually do exist that's fantastic, thank you so much for reading my waffling each day .. It would shock me that an actual human being would aha but if you do I'm eternally grateful and you are an excellent human being ;) ) If you check out my #100happydays: day 16 then you will see the whole short blog thing ... well it didn't really work out but I just love chatting about things when I get passionate ... especially as I was getting passionate about passions the need to waffle for 1157 words was just to great ;) So I'm going to try again and keep this one actually short because it's late at night , I have school tomorrow and I've been busy all week so am shattered... and it's only Tuesday haha :) I'm sure some of you can relate .

So now on to actual today's #100happydays :) Firstly I'd just like to quickly mention that as my #100happydays are usually positivity blogs I'm going to start giving their blog titles in bracket's next to the usual 100happydays stuff :) I hope you don't mind these becoming my positivity part of the blog because as you can see from my late posting times; I do a lot of stuff after school so don't get to write till late however I am planning other blog posts not revolving around this but still happy stuff because who want's to be negative :) Now that's done I'm actually going to go on to actual today's #100happydays photo ( sorry about the way my mind works I'm aware it's confusing, I mean I've lived in this mind all my life and it still confuses me sometime :) I actually occasionally laugh at the thoughts in my head because there that stupid ... and look at that I'm waffling again, sorry ) Today's picture is an origami dragon . It's pretty common knowledge that I am in love with Carrie Hope Fletcher. Well recently she started making origami dragons and now she has a little fleet :) Which I think is so awesome... seriously I want a dragon fleet :D Carrie then answered all my dreams in one video where she teaches you step by step to make origami dragons :) You can find that here . I then read a blog post that I will link to that here :) This girl is also a hopeful ( one of Carrie's subscribers kind of but there's a lot more to it than that though , I might do a blog at some point about what it means to be hopeful  ) She went to Paris and made an origami dragon and left one in each restaurant she ate in :)  How awesome is that ?!? :D This has inspired me to learn how to make origami dragons and do the same . I just think it's a lovely little random act of kindness which is definitely worth doing :) 

Additionally I found another fantastic use for origami dragons that yet another hopeful came up with in the hopeful forum :) You write something that's worrying, bothering or scaring you on the side of your origami paper that will not be showing and then turn this paper into a dragon . The idea is you can relax now knowing that this furious dragon is guarding your problems so they can't escape and get to you :) I think this is a really cute and nice idea especially on those nights when you can't sleep because your stressed so try it out and let me know how it goes :) 

So the quote for today is about how your problem's can be controlled by you even if you can't completely solve them . React with positivity and optimism and your half way there  :) 

“It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

― Epictetus

So once again this post didn't really end up short and sweet but still I hope it wasn't t long and boring :)

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 

Have a nice day and I hope you have lots of fun with origami dragons 

Much Love, Love Much-ly 

DontBurstMyBubble xxx