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Hi dear friends. We’ve made it through another week… Let’s be glad about that… We’ve all done really well!
How did you get on with the smiling? It’s not easy to begin with… But when it gets easier, and it will… Wow!
I bought myself some chocolate today… It may be cheap, but I got a lot of it! A treat to myself. Something we should all do more often…
I don’t know about people in the media who think they should be celebrated, but we most definitely are worth it, simply for coping with the things we do everyday… So, even it is as small as one favourite biscuit, go treat yourself, and enjoy the experience.
If no one else does, I give you permission to do so!
My grandchildren visit tomorrow, the highlight of my week! It is manic for a few hours but, hey, why not? It makes me feel useful now I am retired from full time work. It is good that they bring their own toys with them, it keeps up with what they are into these days. And that seems to change almost hourly!
I verbalise a lot aboutt things now, but at least I don’t bottle them up internally, that is a recipe for total disaster. I used to moan a lot years ago, but now it is all coming true in the world around me, I just sit back and smile!
I was sitting waiting for someone in a doctors surgery yesterday… 2 hours! But the kids in the waiting room were a lot of fun! I must look like a typical grandad! I find that I giggle a lot… It feels great to giggle off stress… Anything that can raise a bit of a giggle feally helps to bounce off intrusive thoughts and stresses of life.
We were in a discounter store today for some stuff. There was a quque at the till, so, when the announcer said they were opening till number 2, we loaded the conveyor belt while the tannoyed a member of staf to operate the said till. They came, we got stuff into the trolley. Then an announcement said they were closing till 2. Hang on! We’re on till 2, and still putting stuff through the till! Well, we paid, then moved everything over to the loading bay, just as they announced they were opening number 2 again!
People in the queues must totally confused! There doesn’t seem to be any real organisation at all! I giggled all the way back to the car!!!
And why are the shop aisles so narrow? Don’t they want us to find anything we actually went in for!!!! Another thing to giggle about… 1 person, with one trolley can stop an entire store!!! Another giggle. And if they should see someone to chat to, well!!
Today is officially the first day of Spring in the Uk. The colour is coming through… Evenings are lightening up now, and the temperature becoming bearable again.
An mp is demanding police protection now… They wouldn’t need it if they were popular!
Doctors and nurses are not afforded the same privileges, whereas, when I had an epileptic seizure in the street before Christmas, I was too scared to go to casualty at hospital… I nearly got killed when working in a hospital some years ago as a student nurse… I know that, as a popular grandad, I really should have gone to hospital, but?
Mmmm, politicians think they are owed more than the world can give….
I have survivd so far… My sense of humour is holding out… I have my music to enjoy, even if no one else hears it. My cold is easing now, so I will sleep well tonight.
I’ve got it so that I actually like myself now… Not in a pompous way, but just a simple friendship with myself. I accept myself for who I am. I live in rented accommodation, so, no major responsibilities there, although the heating system could do with being better… It is booked in for repairs anyway, but as the weather warms, I don’t worry too much, and my bed is warm at night…
Tomorrow, being a Saturday, I may walk to the shops, do a bit of window shopping…
Charity shops are a good place to be. You just never know what you are going to find, and at such good prices! And no walking about in wet grass at a carboot sale! There is treasure amongst the trash!
So… For this next week then… Let’s continue to hold a smile in the mirror… powerful self therapy that… And it doesn’t cost so much an hour… Look across at yourself in the window of a shop on the other side of the street… Find only good, after all, you already know the person you see in your reflection is harmless, and actually as nice a person as you already know… Your very own self… And remember not to stifle your natural smile… It is all for you. And that is an incredible bonus isn’t it? It sure is!!! If necessary, just smile at a blank wall… I magine yourself smiling back… Try it… It actually works if you give it enough time… About 90 seconds should give you a good start…
Time for a nice warm drink… Something favourite… Our electric kettle is busted, so I boil the water in the cup in our microwave oven. I don’t know what we will do when that fails!!!
I will do the same for my other half… That is sharing… We can only share something we have some sort of ownership of, or the emotion doesn’t seem to work properly…
Can we still buy ‘rollo’ chocolate sweets I wonder? Mind you, it was never easy to share the last one!
Until next Friday then… 8/03/2024, at about 6 pm, right here..