A quick glance at social media and it looks like everyone else is living a fairy tale life. We are all off globe trotting, staying in luxury places, trying new foods, going on sweet dates and attending parties. We have a tendency to image craft our lives, project out to the world a picture perfect image that is not a realistic portrayal at all. I share a lot of my life on social media and online. I love to tell stories, take photos and share my adventures. I try to be honest and authentic but at the same time, I can probably make a simple trip to the shops to buy apples look like an amazing journey. 

That is all well and good but an over saturation of fairy tales lives can lead to envy and comparison.  People respond to 'look how dreamy my life is' stories, because we all want THAT dreamy life. I think people are equally drawn to stories that contain gritty reality. Headlines like 'Celebrities Without Makeup' seems to sell magazines. We want to see that others have bad hair days just to feel that our lives are normal.   

But there is a distinct lack of praise for normality. 

Today I want to tell you that your life is good how it is. 

You are not boring. 

You are not missing out. 

  

 You are interesting because life is interesting 

  
I was talking to my Dad last night and something he said really stood out to me. He was lamenting about how his ancestors did not leave any diaries. He had to piece together the family tree and glean as much as he could about his family history based on scrap notes, photos and memorabilia. He said he would have loved to discover a diary, not filled with glamours tales of adventure and misfortune but filled with a realistic daily account of what their lives were like back then. Then Dad said:

 “We might not find the daily little boring details of our lives interesting but our future generations probably will.”   

Boring, average, normal, mundane, nothing much, life's daily little grind is filled with incredibly interesting things already. We just need to open our eyes to life. Stop flying by, looking for the next great shot for Instagram and trying to sell your life like a Hollywood movie. You don't need to travel, go to parties or embark on a perilous journey to prove your self worth in this world. Do those things if you want to (and yes you can do those things if you set your mind to it). But the point is, you don't have to do those things. There is nothing boring about you.   

Today I was lucky to have a child free day off.  I did nothing much at all and I still think it makes a good story. Not because I can image craft the heck out of my photos or only share the whimsical parts. Because it is my life and the inherent nature of that is interesting.   

 So is yours.   

  I will leave you with this adorable quote

 “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”   - L.M Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea 

Until next time,

xx Isabella