Blimey!

Apparently 69 people read yesterday's blog instead of my usual faithful half dozen (hello!)  – wish I'd a made more of an effort now... and am feeling the pressure in case some come back today (hello to you too!).

I've been learning how we're rubbish at predicting how we're likely to feel in the future as we're too influenced by how we feel in the now. I can definitely relate to this – I find it hard to imagine packing for a variety of weathers rather than the type happening at that very moment. We also have skewed recall as to how we felt about things in the past. What is more reliable is the noticing of how we feel in the present – so one of the advantages of blogs, diary accounts and email conversations is that when we are honest in them, we then have a record of how we were feeling at that time. I sometimes deliberately make a note of how content/joyous/confident I feel so that I can then come back to re-read it when the doubts overwhelm, to remind me that it is possible for me to feel like that again as I have already done so, even if currently that's not how I feel.

So right now, I'm pretty good. I'd say I was nursing a heavy cold but truth is I'm not really nursing it, more cursing it, so need to be a little bit kinder to myself. I'm liking myself today, partly as a result of lots of recent acts of generosity, which is when I notice I like myself more. There are good things on the horizon, and people whom I love dearly are in my weekend in some shape or form (whether that's in my arms or on my facebook page). Hope you get to be in touch with how you are too – feel free to share – I like sharing :D