Day 15

Through humour, 
you can soften the worst blows that life delivers,
And once you find laughter, 
no matter how painful your situation may be,
you can survive it
~Bill Cosby

Yes yesterday I spoke about laughter but I think it really needs another post to drill it into your heads. Today I was in the midst of so many stress heads, and deadlines that it was intense. TAFE today was really really intense. Not many people can just look back at it and laugh, that is what I did. When the computer seemed to fail on us, I laughed at the inconvenience and how ironically convenient it is to make us even less able to work. I laughed at how we were so organised then right on the last leg of the race everything goes to the shitter. I just laughed because it is easier to do that, there is no use crying over spilt milk as the saying goes. Seriously less of a mess and when you laugh, you look with another perspective, you see clearer than what you would if you were fuming angry like some were and are less overwhelmed which would make it to achieve your goals. When I laugh, everything seems so much more simpler than before. It's just that quick deep breath that relieves any sign of stress and that is my secret to not getting stressed.
I don't know, I didn't really stress before, I took Year 12 really well, small steps instead of overwhelming myself with the bigger picture and I ended up really fine. More than happy with my result and where I am at the moment.
A lot of laughter got me through it, sometimes it may be manic but the point is that you are manipulating your mind to believe you are really happy...and that in itself produces endorphins which in the end relax you and make you genuinely smile.
That is my teaching for tonight. Smile and Laugh more than usual because there is never enough of it.
Trust me :)

Day 14

A day without laughter

Is a day wasted

~Charlie Chaplin

What can I say about today? I laughed a heck of a lot. Why? Cause it was beautiful. The sun, the warmth of the wind. It was everything and more. I had a really good feeling too. I don't know what it was but as soon as class started and we were all talking, I was laughing at nearly everything. It was a little ridiculous but it was one of those days. Started from the train ride and ended with a goodnight to the rents.

I'm not sure what it was, my cheeks began to hurt at work from all the smiling as well. I didn't really care what I was laughing at but the fact I wasn't taking life seriously for a day was just fantastic. New motto: Just laugh it off. And to be honest that is what I do all of the time. I trip I laugh, I hurt myself I laugh. It makes everyone see that its okay to laugh, I honestly don't care if they laugh at me as long as they are laughing.

It is the best medicine and instantly makes you happy. I don't understand the chemistry but endorphins are going crazy and that is all I care about.

Next time you are stressed laugh.

Laugh like you don't care, cause I know you care but it just is so much easier.

Day 13

Compliments cost nothing,
yet many pay dear for them.
~Thomas Fuller

Compliments. I'm not sure why people don't take them when they should. It is not that you are being selfish or you are up yourself, but the person is taking the effort and time to speak their good judgement. If you reject it, you are basically insulting their views and perspective. Compliments can make anyone feel good, even if it is praise for what you've done or how you look. Even if it makes you turn so red you have to turn around so people don't see you, or hide behind some timetables.
(If you didn't realise, that was me :) )
It is just lately that I realised that people actually notice me, I've had this preconception in the past that I can easily go unnoticed, I don't talk much in class, I achieve quietly, nobody knows what I'm good at until somebody like my teacher tells the whole room...(again went red) or I arise to the challenge. For instance, I had given timetables to everyone, prepared a pre-production meeting and ran that meeting, delegating and explaining everyones roles. Everybody said how surprised they were yet impressed by my effort. Clearly nobody saw it coming and do I find that insulting? Surely not. I've always liked to be the dark horse. And it is easier than saying it which makes me feel just awkward, I'm not one to display much.
But deep inside no matter how shy we are, compliments warm us up especially if they are genuine and I believe that more people have to be willing to take the compliments they get handed. They are very true. Everyone has to believe they are beautiful in every way possible.

Day 12

Music is a moral law. 
It gives soul to the universe, 
wings to the mind, 
flight to the imagination,
and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

~ Plato

Music. It feels you with light, it feels you with love. The emotions become so powerful that it rides with the melody, chords or riff. It is a healing process and is with you on those days that nobody else its. It keeps you company on those long car rides and tells you how it is. Music is the only thing that can be so vulnerable but so powerful at the same time, it is brave, bold, delicate and so full of meaning that every perspective can relate to it. This is unlike of a human who sees from one perspective only.
Music doesn't care what the weather is like, it keeps playing no matter who is listening, it sticks to its own and doesn't care how it is judged. Music is always around, wherever you go either it be at home, in the car, at a festival or at a shopping centre. It is what builds relationships, it can also be there when a relationship is broken, but it is okay as Music understands.
Today my mate and I went driving a lot, music was on the whole time. I was testing my CD's as I do not have an auxiliary and I had put on Bon Jovi on the way to his so I kept with the classic rock them and tried my Pink Floyd...I skipped some songs to see what was on, to my surprise there was Elvis, The Monkeys, Michael Buble and some old Italian music, such old songs that I used to listen to ages ago with dad until being influenced by my time to basically get into pop. I was telling him this is what I grew up with and asked if he liked it. He said he does, that he finds it all quite good as he grew up with the 80s and likes 40-90s as well. I don't know, 'it was such a simpler time', the dancing was incredible back then and it was just so fun. My car had become that, that atmosphere had time travelled just through the tunes and it instantly made my day better to appreciate it with someone else.
I found that I have a 1 hour of greatest 60s hits or something, so that is next to try ;)

Day 11

No quote, no fancy story, just the fact that people care for me. The End

Day 10

The best things in life are unexpected
Because there were no expectations
~ Eli Khamarov

THIS POST IS FOR YESTERDAY

So there was this girl minding her business at work last night. It was quite hot and she couldn't be bothered to put any make up on as she was not trying to impress anybody there. Her hair as she later found out was not at its best, a little frizzy in areas and a little flat in others. She thought she looked not that great. She was expecting  a night of drunkards and smelling of beer, she was expecting a night of  constant banter and playful teasings from the snack bar boys. She was expecting the oldies to hit on her (which did happen).
What she did not expect in her pretty tiresome day was a boy to give her his number.
Now this sounds all very black and white but there was more to it then just handing over a piece of paper.
She was working, in the middle of doing a few beer orders when this young man approached. His burgundy snapback on backwards and she wandered why he'd have it on in the first place, it was hot and it was inside.
1                      INT: BAR- NIGHT                                                            1
Stuffy work environment, peak hour and GIRL is making a few orders
A boy whom looks young approaches.

BOY

Two draught schooners please.

GIRL

(LOOKS HIM UP AND DOWN)

ID please.

BOY

Nahhhh C'mon, don't do that.

I get that a lot. Can I see

your ID, you don't look old enough

to work in the bar.

GIRL

(ABOUT TO GET ID)

Okay fine by me.

BOY

(SIGHS)

Fiiiiiine.

(SHOWS ID)

GIRL

hahahaha...you just make it.

Lucky.

2.                      INT: BAR- NIGHT                                                                     2.

GIRL notices BOY comes up again and she serves him again. They just smile

at each other. BOSS takes over order as GIRL has to make a coffee instead.

GIRL

(JOKING)

Be careful, he is just a kid.

BOY

Hey, I'm older than you!

GIRL

(Laughing)

By what six months, big deal!

Boy is laughing as he goes off with his schooners.

3.                     INT: BAR- NIGHT                                                                            3.

BOY comes up a few more times where GIRL has questioned if he can handle 

the next round. They playfully banter and flirt a little  until a time when he comes up and

another person serves him.

BOY

(JOKING)

OHHHHHHH....

I wanted her to serve me.

Though you are also pretty cute.

GIRL

hahahaha...I'll take the compliment

BOY

What did you say?

GIRL

Nothing at all.

(Sweetest smile)

BOY

Yeah that's what I thought.

(LAUGHS)

Yeah you're reallll funny.

GIRL

I know. I'm a funny person.

Boy goes off with order, leaving GIRL blushing and smiling. He is soon to return.

GIRL

What do you want now?

BOY

I need to ask a question.

Don't get too carried away.

GIRL

(RAISES EYEBROW)

I'm not. I'm just curious.

Go on...

BOY

What's your name?

GIRL

My real name?

BOY

Yeah and don't lie to me hahaha

GIRL keeps doing orders and thinks about this question, she never gives out her real name at work.

BOY

Are you gonna just leave me hanging.

GIRL

My name is....

BOY 

NAHHH...you're lying.

GIRL

Nope (LAUGHS) its the truth.

3.             INT. FRONT OF HOUSE- NIGHT                                                               3.

GIRL is coming back from a toilet break. BOY sees her and smiles.

BOY

(TO FRIENDS)

This is her!

GIRL

Mmm...hi.

FRIEND 1

What's your name?

GIRL

I already told him. It wasn't a lie.

FRIEND 1 asks where she is situated and they all try guessing the areas which they aren't even close.

BOY tells her to add him on FB but she just laughs walking off getting back to the bar.

4.                    INT. BAR- NIGHT                                                                                      4.

It is getting late, people are leaving and GIRL is cleaning up the bar. The BOY asks

to be served by her. She goes up and asks what does he want.

BOY

Do you have pockets in those things?

GIRL

(SMILES AND CONFIDENTLY PUTS OUT HER HAND)

 BOY

(HANDS HER SMALL PAPER)

Don't open it until you finish work.

They say goodnight and she goes back to work, curious as to what it will say even though she is pretty sure it is his number. When she gets home they start texting. It was such an unexpected twist into her pretty ordinary day. Something little that made her quite content.

Day 9

I was quite busy yesterday, but ultimately this will act as yesterday's post:

The fun stuff comes when someone isn't strict on sticking to the script.
You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen
~ Jennifer Aniston

Spontaneity, its quite a unique sounding word in itself, you can say it right or you say it wrong but the best part of the meaning of the word there is neither right or wrong. I don't know about you but I love being spontaneous, I love spontaneity in itself. I'd rather someone just drive past and drop by for a chat or even an hour just to catch up without warning, or making quick decisions like I did yesterday, I had some time before work so I went to a friends house. It was a quick plan...but it changed how I thought my day was going to end up. I was stuck in traffic and though I was pissed off only cause I may have been late to work or if my mum rang and knew I was driving before work I probably would have been scolded, but honestly I didn't care, it made me laugh quite a lot.
I wasn't exactly stressed, I don't get stressed easily but I looked around me and all these other people had to be getting somewhere in a hurt (they were on a freeway) and were stuck too. It made me wonder what lives they lead and so forth, I often do that especially on the train, it makes everything a whole lot more interesting.
Another surprising thing was when a mate of mine was on the train and he ended up being on the same carriage, I told him to come over and we weren't exactly mates and had met once before but we had a good chat. We walked home together, supposedly going the same way and it was nice to be in the company of others that you don't normally speak too. It was quite funny, where we were headed was a straight line and it was a place though ended in a court and had an adjoining little park to another street, he was set on taking to the path and I couldn't quite get it. He said 'roads are for cars and wheels', I said 'who said that' and he ended up saying he did. But that is only because we have been led to believe it is just for cars though nobody is stopping me from walking on the road. I rather not stick to the path that is laid out, I rather make my own path and I think he noticed that.
I just think that if the day takes way more turns then just heading in a straight line it makes life a whole lot more interesting. The spontaneous nature of a day is what is so refreshing. I'm not one for routine and knowing what is going to happen next. Surprise me. That is all.