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Bare with me on this one...

Admit it, we can all be real debbie-downers sometimes. You know when you start to feel like you're in a rut and the day to day routine gives you the same old qualms and frustrations over and over? Well that has been me for the past two months or so. I am my own worst enemy as I often let it get so bad that I recline into my own bubble and let it consume me. Quite often pushing people away in the meantime – not okay.

What's good is that recently (and by recently I mean literally over the weekend) I had a welcome realisation that people are the key to getting yourself out of a rut, especially if you are an introvert like myself. Without sounding like a complete Woodstock hippy, I do believe that different people have different sorts of energy about them. Energy in the sense that I mean is so difficult to describe. I wan't to put it down to the kind of attitude someone has towards life, or that certain people generally maintain a level, upbeat mood, but it's more than that. It's like people with a good energy don't even need to be saying anything monumentally life changing, you can just be around them and it makes you feel a little lighter. These are the people that we need to surround ourselves with.

My own energy is often wanting. I think that is probably due to the fact I allow myself to get so bogged down in the negatives and forget to see the positives. This weekend I went to the British Museum with a travelling friend, we live miles and miles apart, but when we do hang out it is always good vibes. Not only did mixing up my usual weekend plans of sleeping as much as humanly possible jolt me out of habit, but being a bit of a culture vulture and soaking up someone else's optimistic energy has given me a bit more perspective on what is important. Just be careful - too many good vibes can make you go a little overboard on the G&T's...as I recalled with a heavy head on Sunday morning...but that's beside the point.

You don't have to believe in 'energy' to understand the point I am making here. No-one is on an even keel one hundred percent of the time, that's not mental health. Everyone has highs and lows, everyone gets stuck in ruts and everyone can close themselves off from time to time. However, if you have people in your life who make you feel as I have described, not too articulately, a bit lighter, then embrace them. For a while I have been struggling to see the wood for the trees, and if I'd had my way I probably would have slept through the majority of Saturday morning and binge watched that new Netflix original series; 'Love' for most of Saturday afternoon. Instead I had a much needed kick up the ass to look at the bigger picture, see the positives in my life (all of which are in human form), and settle on a topic to write a blog post on, all because of a weekend spent surrounded by good ENERGY.

I'm a cliché, I know.

More to follow!