How far we've come

A few days ago now i had a meeting with a friend. We're currently working on a project which we are trying to get off the ground. Despite us being over 100 miles away from each other, and the fact that i was sat in my sunny garden surrounded by books and birds and that she was cleaning her bathroom, we had a very successful meeting. Professional even.

After the meeting, via hangouts, as i was typing up all we had discussed to send to her, it made me realise just how far we had come. We had met at uni at a time when we were both loaded down with impending despair, a sense of doom reserved for those studying the way in which the world works and is failing, allergies which i was steadily ignoring and all of this while writing assignments with the knowledge of a large debt around your neck. Not exactly the easiest environment in which to make friends, because really i was not the best version of myself at the time.

But look at us now. Communicating openly about a joint creative venture in which we were discussing ideas and themes for, planning how best to go about the next step. And it made me realise how nice it was to work collaboratively and creatively with friends again. Uni allowed that and i miss it. I work in a small team but a large amount of my work is independent. And blogging and writing is very solitary, so it's so lovely to think i now have another brain on board, someone to sound ideas off of.

Hopefully i shall be able to tell you a little more about our exciting venture soon, but for now, it's still in the prep stages. More to come on that later my friends.

For now, i will leave you with my intense feeling of happiness and productivity which can only come from having written most of what i needed to write from my home office (my bed) by 9am, followed by a successful meeting and an afternoon spent planning my life out in the sunshine. I am becoming the best version of myself that i can be. I am usually hard on myself but i am learning to speak to myself in a kinder way, to apply the friendship filter to everything. If i wouldnt say that to a friend, why say it to myself. And it's working. Because we've all got to look after ourselves.

That's all pals.
Have a good week,
R