Self Harm Distractions * Trigger Warning*

Hello 

This isn't going to be a usual happy blog post but it's important . I've known too many people who self harm for too many different reasons that should never lead them to feeling like it is the only option . I am not a qualified professional and If you are effected by self harm I definitely urge you to go and find professional help to stop,  which I talk a little about at the end of my '100 reasons to live' post which you can find by clicking here . Today I'm not talking about stopping self harm because I believe the main key to that is talking about but today I want to talk about distractions to get you through the night because if you stop yourself every night then eventually that can lead to stopping completely . 

What is Self Harm ?

self-harm

sɛlfˈhɑːm/

noun

1. 1.

   deliberate injury to oneself, typically as a manifestation of a psychological or psychiatric disorder.

verb

1. 1.

   commit self-harm.

Self harm is very serious and can take place in many different forms that deliberately cause physical damage to yourself,  including : 

• Cutting or scratching 
• Causing bruises
• Banging their head against a wall
• Pulling out hair
• Burning 
• Falling over 
• Breaking an arm or leg

What self harm isn't : 

•  Just attention seeking . Maybe it is a cry out for help or maybe it's a secret release, there are so many different reason but if its a cry out for help then they need attention for something and if that is the only way they feel it can be asked for them,  they definitely need help with something . So give them that help . 
• Something that only happen's to people who are depressed or suffering from any other mental illness. Anyone of anyone age, gender, background or religion can be put in circumstances which may lead to them feeling the need to self harm . However I truly believe that every one of those people can (with a lot of hard work and help) overcome this and get better because I believe in you no matter how bad it's got and regardless of whether you still have any faith in yourself whatsoever. I still believe and will continue to believe in the wonderful person that is YOU . <3
• Something that self harmer's enjoy or they wouldn't do it. No NO NO No NO NO! Just NO . I'm not even going to comment on this ridiculous myth . If you seriously think that someone enjoys hurting themselves ... I think you need to think that through again because you got confused somewhere . 

Distractions

Okay so I promised distractions so distraction's you will get. Just to remind you this is NOT an alternative to professional help but just to get you through the hour or however long it takes <3 I love you . I've asked people in the Help and Support Boards of the hopeful forum for their in put and some of my friends whom have been affected. Additionally I've done a lot of  Research on as many reliable sites as I could and I will leave links to sites that can help or have useful pages at the end of this post  Also if you have any good distractions or beneficial idea's please feel free to help others as long as you are kind feel free to comment whatever you wish. 

• Call Someone. I can't say this enough times because it's so under rated but it's so so beneficial and important . " You Are Not in this Alone"  I have this written on my bedroom wall next to my bed for whenever I'm sad because as humans we tend to convince ourselves that we are alone when we're upset but you are not more alone than you were ten minutes before are you, really ? Call someone, anyone . You have people who love you and care about you . You don't even have to talk to them just call them and cry down the phone for a bit . Whether it's your family, your best friend or childline ( 0800 1111) you can call them . You are never alone . 
• Punch a pillow . This is a good way of releasing tension if you are angry or worked up . Just make sure what you're hitting is soft so that you wont damage yourself . Hitting a rolled up newspaper on a door frame does a similar thing . 
• Scream ! Seriously darlin, just get it all out of your system and if people are in the house try screaming into a pillow . 

List the good the good things about yourself. Don't even tell me there isn't any because there are . It's not a bad thing to think about the good things in yourself . Nowadays girls seem to think it's not okay to actually say " Do you know what ? I'm me . I'm okay with that . I am beautiful " ergh society makes me so angry . I might do a blog post about that at some point. But seriously just look at the small things like well your eyes are a really nice shade for starters <3 

• Have some "me" time. Go run yourself a bath and cuddle up in bed having a Inbetweener's marathon ( or anything you like , but something that might make you smile would be good ) . 
• Paint your nails. This keeps your hands busy and that can be extremely useful . 
• Knitting .. you should make a scarf for the winter I know you're still going to be here for <3 
• Cross stitch , how about you make a cute little cross stitch for the friend who's always there ? Or even just for you because I guarantee you are worth it :)  
•  Baking, being organised and weighing out the measurements and doing something productive is a good way to start to feel a little more in control .
• Painting
• Drawing
• Playing an instrument, if you can sing or if you can't , go and sing your little heart out until the hurt has gone away . 
• Writing, you could take all that emotion and turn it into a best selling novel ! Wow it's going to be amazing I can just see it now ;) <3 
• Clean you're room or organise something . It can help if you feel out of control this can distract you, give you a sense of achievement when you're done as well as  please your carer ;) 
• Play games ... go kill someone on GTA or Rock out on guitar hero, whatever  takes your fancy aha .
• Squeezing an Ice cube 
• Sucking on a Lemon ... For the shock factor . I don't know how well this would work but anything's worth a shot and I guess it makes sense aha ;) 
• Give every person in all your magazines a moustache 
• EXERCISE! Exercising is key to calming down and de-stressing and whilst it's de-stressing you you're releasing feel-good endorphins that but you on a natural high making you feel happy :) Now doesn't that sound like a nicer alternative ? <3 
• Run you're hands under freezing cold water 
• Counting ceiling lights or tiles to distract you and write them down as you count to keep your hands busy ... and if your hands still need to be busy after that make a graph to show lights in all the different rooms of the house :) Sounds boring but if your hands are busy then it's fantastic :) Just like you <3
• Write out the lyrics to your favourite song <3 There's a line I like in Pierce The Veil's " Hold On Till May " that says : " If I were you I'd put that away, See you're just wasted thinking bout the past again. Darlin' you'll be okay . " They're right you're going to be okay. Maybe not right now but if you give up now then you're never going to know <3 It's difficult and I understand that but you need to hold out a lil bit longer honey . 
• Learn to swear in another language because that's clearly a talent you need to have far more than that mark which you don't <3 Trust me . 
• Memorise a poem with meaning .
• Feel your pulse to remind yourself that you're alive and that's pretty damn awesome (( <3 ))
• Make a notebook of your favourite quotes that help you ... PINTEREST TIME ! :D 
• Make yourself a safe place whether its some beanbags with blankets in your room or you've added nine pillows and every cuddly toy you own to your bed just make it cosy and lovely and put a book or your laptop next to it whichever you like . Now go take a freezing cold shower ... I know I'm sorry if it's a bit chilly but try . Once your out the shower pop your nicest fresh PyJama's on and climb in to your cosy place and notice how warm and safe it feels in comparison then watch YouTube, Read all of the Harry Potter books or Catch up on every episode of The Great British Bake Of ( WOO ) whatever makes you feel all snugly inside and do it all night . Just have sometime for you to be calm ... and add a Milky way , that's what I give myself when I having some calm time ;) <3
• Bake ! I'm sure it will be yummy :) Maybe you'll be in the next series of bake off.. wow that would be so cool, yeah you should definitely bake :) 
• Listen to music ! This is the most common method , please comment songs that help you <3 
• Get a Wreck This Journal ... and wreck it ;) 
• Brose Amazon and Ebay .. Kit out your whole future house with your imaginary unlimited budget :) 
• Write a letter to brighten someone else's day ... maybe even a stranger and you could just leave it in a cafe ? <3 

These are just a few alternatives ! There are loads and you can do all of them . I Know you can . I want you to know that even if it feels unbearable .. it isn't  . You can hold out and get through this and there doesn't need to be a mark on yourself to show you felt like that . If you need help ( which you do if you feel the need to hurt yourself ) please, please ask for it . It's out there and available to you and yes it might be scary to ask but you need to honey and it's always better than suffering alone . You just need to stay strong because you are a fighter and don't you dare under estimate yourself because if you think that you can't do it , 1) You're going to trick yourself into believing that . and 2 ) If someone else told you that you we're too weak to do something would you listen to them or prove them wrong ? Self belief is important and you should believe in yourself .. because I believe in you and I don't just believe in anyone , You're special .  If you do mess up , try again . When you were a kid you didn't just magically stand up and be able to walk perfectly did you ? But when you fell down you got up and look at you now . A beautiful , wonderful strong example of a human being ... wow :o <3 You're amazing . 

Here are a few useful websites I found for you <3 :) 

Kooth.com - On-line councillors , you don't even need to leave your room to get help just click the link, you can do that <3
Childline - This link will take you to a list of Self Harm distractions on the childline website
Selfharm.co.uk - Lots of information and facts 
Harmless - Coping strategies
Self Injury Support -  Some self help stuff :) 
Mind - All kinds of support 

If you know any helpful sites please leave the links in the comments <3 

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :) 

Keep Going like the absolutely wonderful person you are <3 

Much Love , Love Much-ly 
DontBurstMyBubbleXx

100 Reasons to live :)

Good Evening :)

I Hope your doing good because it's good to be happy it's a skill and a talent and it should be YOU <3 Unfortunately sometimes people hit a low point ...a really low point that no one should even hover above let a lone hit, So this is a call out to every one of you beautiful people and yes you are beautiful don't even argue with my on that one I wrote a whole blog to counter every argument you have when you get confused and seem to go under the delusion that you're not beautiful which you can find here :)   But this is a shout out to you for if you're ever left that low that you feel like ending it all. Let me tell you now darling; Suicide is NOT the answer . Not ever . You are so loved by so many people even if you can't see it even if you're sat there going 'no, no you don't understand nobody cares' oh my gosh I promise you they do you might not even know you but they care .. I care <3 No matter how bad the situation is, how you're feeling and what the voices in your head are screaming at you .. the solution is never suicide . Never . There can be a million, billion reasons to go, but if there's even one to stay you should and I know you will because you're immensely strong honey and you will get through this and out of this dark place however scary moving away from it seems <3 I believe in you . One reason is all you need ... But I'm going to give you one hundred just to make sure :

1. Going to the seaside
2. Cuddles
3. Friends
4. Running around in the rain like a lunatic
5. Singing ( even if you can't sing ) Really REALLY loudly :D
6. Going to the theatre
7. Seeing your favourite books turned into films
8. The awesome adventures you're going to have
9. The adventures you've had that you wont remember if you're gone
10. Cloud watching
11. Finding out if it gets better tomorrow ... You never know , it might? <3
12. Swimming in the sea
13. Picnics
14. Watching your favourite YouTubers next video
15. Counting the seconds between the thunder and the lightening
16. Comfy Pillows
17. Pyjama days
18. Laughing so hard with your friends that you can barely breathe
19. Smiling Uncontrollably
20. Your kitten / pet climbing onto your bed in the night to sleeping with you
21. All the sweets you still Haven't eaten ( have you tried peanut butter M'n'M 's ?)
22. Seeing which Doctor is next O.o
23. You never know .. you might be able to go to the moon one day
24. Finding your soulmate ( or cat )
25. Going on your first holiday with friends
26. Getting drunk... on laughter
27. Being Given Flowers
28. You Inspire someone
29. Breakfast in Bed
30. Ice Cream
31. Lolly pops
32. Making wishes on 11:11
33. Waiting for Santa
34. bubbles
35. Painting your nails a pretty colour
36. Swinging on swings
37. Getting picked up and swung around :)
38. Trying to catch Santa out
39. Catching snowflakes on your tounge
40. The pet you always wanted but can get when you move out
41. Spinning round and round and round and round ( ooo I'm getting dizzy ;) )
42. Carboot Sales
43. When a baby holds your finger
44. The moment you go underwater
45. Music
46. Ice Cold Lemonade... with a straw :)
47. Sparklers
48. Awwing at cute baby animals when they're asleep
49. CHRISTMAS!!! :D
50. Getting dressed up
51. Pizza yummy :p
52. Toasting marshmallows
53. Cookies
54. loosing yourself in a song
55. New cities
56. Hugs from behind
57. Keeping a diary that last like two days .. but you have about 50 of them over your life time aha
58. Re-reading old notebooks
59. Scented candles
60. Lists
61. Baking
62. Making people smile
63. Packing to go on holiday
64. Staying in a hotel room .. with a bath !!
65. Going to the Zoo
66. Falling asleep to the sound of the rain
67. Decorating cupcakes
68. Slipper Socks
69. Walking Barefoot in grass
70. Seeing your favourite band in concert
71. Long phone conversations
72. The sound of Rice Krispies
73. Squirty Cream
74. Tight Hugs
75. Seeing a rainbow
76. Receiving Post-cards
77. Hot Chocolate.. with marshmallows ! :)
78. Sending Letters
79. Pinkie Promises
80. Winnie the Pooh
81. Cookie dough
82. Trampolines
83. Fairy lights
84. Balloons
85. Dream Catchers
86. Your helium voice
87. Bookshops
88. Getting into a freshly made bed
89. Good, interesting and funny dreams
90. All the absolutely hilarious stories you haven't heard yet
91. Going to Disneyland I haven't been yet so I definitely have to be a live to do that and if you already have been then stay alive so you can go again :D
92. Traveling the world
93. This pain is tempory, suicide is permenant
94. Dandelion wishes
95. Going on dates
96. Changing the world ,you're pretty cool so I know you can do that
97. The best song in the world might come out tomorrow
98. BuildaBear Workshop
99. Adventure time
100. I love you <3 :'( please don't go I love you so much and your destined to do such great things, you're amazing in ways your blind to but I promise you that I can see them and so can everyone else <3 I wish I could hug you and hold you until you feel like you can try and stand up again and I wish I could be there to help you up and catch you if you trip over again but you're on the other side of the screen so all I can say is if you need me , I'm here , Always <3 My Blogs Email address is MyHappyBubbleXx@Outlook.com Contact me anytime you need some advice, someone to vent to or just a cuddle over the internet and I WILL answer you are worth the world but I can only give you me but I'm pretty sure the world would want to follow because you are so amazing . I love you <3

So on that note I hope you can find a reason to stay, please for me darling . Find a reason to stay I've given you one hundred and you only need one but your worth one hundred and more and you are definitely worth more than the need to end your precious life . I believe in you <3

Todays quote is one that just touches me heart and it's from the lead singer of one of my favourite bands, All Time Low :)

“I want you to fucking pinky promise me you won't do it. No fan of mine will kill themselves. Don't do it, for me. I love you.”
―  Alex GasKarth

If you ever get this low, to the point that you want to harm or kill yourself then you need to seek help, I'm going to ask you to tell your parents I know you don't want to because it's really scary but that's the way to get help.. even if you can't get the courage to tell them you want to kill yourself or how bad it is really, then how about you tell them " I'm feeling pretty down and struggling to keep on top of things and my friend who felt like this earlier this year said she got a block of counselling and it helped her out a lot " Now it's much better if you actually tell your parents what'sgoing on but if you can't then say something like that to get yourself someone who you can tell because I know you don't want to see your parents upset honey but they do care about you and they would want to help you .. But most importantly you just need to get some help no matter where from lets just start you getting better and we can make it through this together <3 If you self-harm then I am currently planning a blog post about distractions when you feeling the need to hurt yourself but for now can you just stay strong and hold in there for me, all of you because you ARE going to make it through this I know you are <3 Please feel free to comment your reasons to live because your reason might just be the one that saves the person who reads it.. see I told you that you could save the world ;)

There's a Youtuber called Marina Joyce who did a video about why not to kill yourself and it's truly heart warming and well it made me cry and if you're feeling suicidal I think it would probably help you out to watch it :

 

 

Also here are some other videos that may help you , they're on depression but they do talk about suicide as a part of that topic <3

 

 

 

I hope this has given you enough to get through today :) You're going to be okay <3 Here's a video that will make you giggle to get you started with feeling a lil bit better even temporarily :)

 

 

 

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :)

 

 

Talk to you soon

Much love, Love much-ly

DontBurstMyBubbleXx

 

 

 

#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 12

Good Evening All :) 

I hope you are well and filled with positivity and smiles ... if your not check out my #100happydays: day 4 blog post, I left one of my spare smiles for you there so feel free to use it any time :) Erghh I just did self promotion within my own blog ... that wasn't intended honestly you don't have to read it or anything  haha I mean if you do that's great and very lovely of you but feel free to just take the free smile and ex the page ... why not ? free stuffs cool everyone likes free stuff ;)

Right now I should probably say something interesting or at least valid ...I'll try my best but as you know; I spend a lot of time living amongst my own thoughts of which are a conveyor belt of Carrie Hope Fletcher and Llamas ( My friend has a llama army of 5003 llamas's in her head .. the last 3 are paramedics :) ) What am I even meant to be talking about ... oh yeah #100happydays umm can't we just talk about ice cream . I really like ice cream especially Ben and Jerry's. People tell me that I can't eat a whole tub to myself because it's like a billion calories ... but let me tell you It's so worth every single one of those calories :) Anyway's I can burn it off with a the diet starts tomorrow workouts as I call them ;) My favourite Ben and Jerry's is probably the Half baked one because its got all those amazing mouth-watering cookie dough bits but this time it's in chocolate ice cream so the whole things one big taste sensation ! The brownie bit's are just a fantastic bonus ;) 

Just to give you an insight into how quickly my mind wonders ... This post was meant to be about being healthy and stuff but oh well maybe I'll do it another day because I really do want to do some posts about fitness ect. if you'd be interested but I want to make it clear that happiness is most important . Do what makes you happy because I care about you honestly , i pinkie promise that i care about you and love you so and you're happiness means a lot to me <3 The reason I'm into fitness is that a while ago I was very uncomfortable with myself and I wasn't happy because I was self-concious and to be honest just very negative ... That's not a way to live because there is no need to live like that . Positivity is an attitude choice and you can make that choice , I guarantee you will feel better for it :) Fitness is simply a way of helping to boost your positivity because it realises endorphins which put you on a natural high ... warning when I'm being even slightly technical I think and hope it's right but it's me sooo it could be wrong ;) There are lots of ways to boost positivity , maybe I will do I blog with a list ( woooo lists ) of my happy boosters or something like that :) 

Furthermore if nothing else.. I agree with Herm Albright :

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort"

- Herm Albright

I kinda want to follow this by quoting the Madagascar penguins with " Smile and wave boys, Smile and wave" but I dont think that's relevant ... It makes sense in my head ;)

If anyone's confused; my #100happydays was the treat of a Ben and Jerry's ice cream .. I actually didn't eat any tonight but we bought it in for tomorrow night so I could eat it while watching a movie so it's more the plans it symbolises that makes me happy ... Okay please excuse me, I realise how utterly ridiculous I am when I'm tired I'm very sorry for talking about symbolic ice cream haha ;) 

On That note I think it might be time for me to go to bed,

Stay Strong <3 Stay Smiley :)

I hope your feeling a little more positive .. If nothing else you got a free smile I guess ;) 

Much love, Love much-ly

DontBurstMyBubble xxx

P.s. Llama's are cool  :D

#100happydays: day 2

Good Evening :) 

So today's not been particularly spectacular however it's in no way been bad . When I came to writing today's #100happydays I'm not going to lie, I panicked just a little bit . I know, I know it's only day 2 and I'm struggling ;) So I sat down and made a list of everyday good that happened today and made me smile. This is something I truly recommend you do because its really helps you see the great things you miss in a day that really wasn't that bad and has plenty of hidden smiles that your mind just glossed over when you remembered your day ... and why on earth would you want to forget the moments that make you smile however small they are :) I love Dr. Zeus quotes I find them incredibly uplifting and they often carry a positive can do attitude, something of which we could all benefit from a little of . My apologies for the rambling ( its a bad habit of mine ) but I promise this is going somewhere :) One of my favourite Dr.Zeus quotes is " Don't give up. I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small."

Now I ask you, shouldn't the same theory apply for those moments that tease those 17 muscles into a smile no matter how small be just as important ?

I quickly realised that the best happy moment I had today was around lunch time when I was with my friends in the library . Me and my best friend were telling them a story about the time me and her set off the smoke alarm in my house at 2 am while everyone slept ... well they were asleep ;) In a nut shell, following the being told off repeat-ably for making too much noise , we burnt some chips , set off the smoke alarm , didn't even eat the chips and then on our way to bed I forgot my bedroom door was open so with my laptop in hand I ever so gracefully fell straight through the door and face planted the floor ... I truly am a sophisticated, elegant young woman ;) This was then followed by numerous shouts from across the house after waking everyone for the fifth time that evening telling me to shut up :O I am so grateful to be blessed with such a caring family haha ;)

So today's photo is not one I took because I simply couldn't think of a photo I could take to capture the happiness of a moment of laughter shared with friends. The sort of laughter where you laugh so hard you snort and struggle to breath but you couldn't care less because you're with people you love and there's a smile imprinted in your face for at least a good ten minutes :) What could be better . So instead I choose a picture that I thought symbolised the magic powers of a story that makes you laugh .. after all I guess laughters a form of magic in its self! 

It is my firm belief that as the lovable Charlie Chaplin so beautifully put :

" A day without laughter is a day wasted " 

Laughter is a fantastic thing that can bring light in the darkest of times. So next time your feeling down ; find something to make you laugh. Surround yourself with friends that make you feel good about yourself, the ones who know how to make a joke out of life, who you know will leave you in stitches! Alternatively turn to my online haven ... YOUTUBE ! :) I can always rely on my favourite YouTuber's to cheer me up .. try Danisnotonfire he will without a doubt leave you laughing uncontrollably . A good laugh might not fix your problems but it will definitely make you feel a lot better about them, even if its just for  a  little while :) 

Have a nice day 
bye for now 
much love, love much-ly 
DontBurstMyBubble xxx

P.S. you can find Danisnotonfire's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/danisnotonfire