Life is Short

By ALICE O’BRIEN Alice O’Brien Counselling, Newmarket

As we approach the summer months and the holidays, we enter into a different mind-set. A more of a carefree approach to our routines, bedtimes get later, housework gets ignored and replaced with days out and occasionally ice-cream is consumed for breakfast. We are enter into the ‘life is short’ phase of the year.

So, with that in mind, here is a list of things that life is too shout for, a list of things that we do not need to be giving our energy to;

• Reading books that we don’t enjoy. If you start a book and you realise after a hundred pages that it’s not for you, put it down, get another one. The world is full of joyous books.

• Life is too shout for decanting washing power into fancy labelled jars so our utility room looks like a pinterest page. Let the washing powder in the tub and find a more enjoyable use of your time.

• Some may argue with this one, but life is too sort for making pastry from scratch- buy a sheet of ready-made pastry. Is that cheating? Depends on how you look at it.

• Life is too short to compare ourselves to other people, especially people we see on line. When we compare, we despair and life is definitely too short for despairing. Also, comparing ourselves to a carefully selected snapshot of someone else’s life is never a fair comparison.

• Life is too short to give mental energy to negative people, people who try to put others down, or are disrespectful to us or others do not deserve a minute of our thoughts or time.

• Life is too short of time restrictions- like waiting for the right time to start somethingthere’s never a right time. Or telling ourselves we’re too oldyou’re never too old.

And lastly, but most importantly life is too short to be anything but happy