How To Feel Alive: Feel a Rainbow

My question to you is what has made you feel alive today?

I did my video in comic book mode, as you couldn't see the spot in the middle of my forehead so glaringly.

I make it my mission to feel a rainbow of emotions everyday and not be stuck on autopilot, but live and enjoy life and all its opportunities to feel, whether it’s simple things, or more complex.

Today, I felt joy at a craft course I go to. I am making a story sack. Both my girls love the book “The Highway Rat”, so I am making props and toys that will make the reading experience more interactive for kids.

I created the actual sack today and got creative sticking on different materials to make the rat on the horse, like the front cover of the book. I was there two hours, I blinked and it was over. But I remembered to be be mindful and enjoy it, even getting covered in glue and I’ve picking the dried glue off my fingers ever since!

I get on the train to go to the course, as it is run in the next town along so on the way back, instead of getting absorbed in my tablet and clicking away on things (Goodness only knows how much I do of this at home), I chose to put it away and just look out the window.

It has been been snowing, so there is a little white soap powder covering on the beach and the waves are crashing in. There are people out walking their dogs, and both the people and dogs have warm coats on. I love watching the sea, it calms me.

For lunch, instead of grabbing the usual Cornish pasty, I decide to try something new and I buy a cous cous salad and I’m not impressed, but at least I tried it as I might have ended up being a raving fan about it. I never had a Subway for 38 years, but found I wasn’t missing out on much there either!

Then I bumped into my friend Gary, who coincidently didn’t think much of cous cous either and we had a nice chat about life, the universe and everything.

No not really.

Just the weather, about the courses we had just been on and what our plans were for the rest of day.

My challenge I set myself is to talk on video for at least three minutes and my subject today is how to feel a rainbow of emotions, so I talked about that. I gave myself some bullet points and set the timer, and this is the result.

(Okay, so today I cheated a little as I wrote the article, before the video, but what came first the chicken or the egg and I won’t read the article, just remember bits)

But, it is my new mission to do this every day, as somewhere along the line I have forgotten how to do small talk and conversation, so I am trying some methods to get out of that comfort zone and get over the fear of what, maybe its the the fear of not being interesting, or that people won’t like what I say.

But if I force myself to talk for at least 3 minutes to a camera everyday (I’ll increase the length, as time goes on), that will help.

So if you want to help by giving me some video topics in the comments, I may (or may not), give them a shot.

I have also thought of a video sketch, but it snot very politically correct these days, as its a stereotype, but I so fall into that stereotype in this case. Should I share it? The emotional of doubt raises its ugly head.

I will obviously look at other stuff as well to improve my conversation skills, so that is the every day fear.

At the moment I am sad, because one of the guinea pigs is unwell. The vets suspects it has a hernia, so it is in a lot of pain and probably needs an operation. There is only a a certain price I will pay up too, so I think there may be tears on the horizon on that front.

Did anyone else feel a rainbow of emotions today?

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