Tuesday 24 July 2018

It’s not a race


I'm not normally one to rush things. Or rather rush into things.
I've always believed firmly that friends come first! I keep good people around me, I let the ones who don't bring positive things to my life go and I have zero time for fakeness and bravado!

I'm a sharer, I share everything (you'd never guess I was basically an only child, I say basically as I do have half siblings, but I never lived with them), possibly too much at first, but this is how I know I can trust someone, It’s probably a terrible way to start a friendship, cos I run the risk of getting hurt. But I continue to do it anyway.

But when it comes to relationships with boys, or rather a boy I want to be in a relationship with, I find I clam up, I find it hard to let them see my vulnerable sides. I'm the Boss Bitch, totally in control of my life. Even when I'm not. Even to the point where, as uncomfortable as I can be in my skin, I can't go for a run with them, can't show me struggling. Even though showing them that I can do something about the things that make me uncomfortable which probably would be a lot better than me just saying no in substations. Trying is so much sexier than not, even if it’s a struggle.

This time it’s different, this time I'm different.

About 8 years ago I broke up with a boy I thought was going to be my forever. We'd grown up and turned into different people, I was chasing something different, something I thought I wanted. I soon found out that wasn't going to work.
Then I was basically single for forever. I dated, dated for a few months, a week, a night. But I knew none of them were right because things were still so false. I wasn't letting guards down.

Then I met a boy the night before NYE 2016. It was a drunken night and he was fun. We went on a few dates after, but I was so fed up with my life. Fed up with my weight, my job. He went traveling and I dropped contact with him. As is the way these days we had each other on social media and I had started eating better and actually working out correctly and I started losing weight and most importantly, feeling better about myself.
We bumped into each other October 2017, again another drunken night out and we linked back up.
This time I was happier and willing to see what happened.
Date turned into date turned into GF/BF.

9 months later and we talk about the future, both of us as open as we can get but both knowing that things happen sometimes and nothing is definite but both willing and wanting to take this as far as it goes. According to friends (his and mine) the way we are together is really positive. It's quite scary how comfortable we are together. But neither one of us is blindsided.
I have finally let him see me, let him see me sweat in the gym, he's seen me cry (really ugly cry too) he's seen me happy, drunk, and stressed. He's seen me get passionate about things, and bitch about thing, he's seen nearly every side I have.
He still looks at me with such wonder, I always ask him what he's looking at and his response is always, "you".

This is where the race comes in, we've done quite a lot in 9 months, we've been away to other countries for concerts, weddings. We've been on road trips. We've danced around like idiots, we've smiled and cried and talked for hours. We've talked about all the things we'd love to do together, and in general in our lives.
I want to race through all this to enjoy every moment with him, I want all the struggles there's going to be along the way. I want to experience as much as I can is this life.

But it shouldn't be rushed.
So I won't.

Thanks for reading
Keep it Positive

Nessa

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Sticks and Stones

Sorry I've been absent, life has been very hectic.

I've been up and down with my weight this last few months.

But I'm back, not 100% following the slimming world ways at the moment, mostly because of the lack of cash flow in my life, so I'm on a diet of "eating what's in the cupboards". Have a look at my Instagram (@KawaiiVeganNess) for the kind of things that I'm eating.

But back to the title in hand, we've all heard the phrase, "sticks and stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me!"

Well, and I've always known this, sometimes words cut like a knife.

Growing up I learnt that words were just that, words, and I could take them to heart or I could let them wash over me. I've always been pretty good and disregarding someone's negativity if I don't like the sounds of it. Or if that person has no positive impact on my life any other time, why should the words they speak now affect me.

Then sometimes someone close to you utters a few little words that absolutely crush your soul.

We're the worst at saying something in the wrong context or saying something that comes out way harsher than we actually mean.
We're also the worst at taking something someone says and over analysing it and blowing it way out of proportion.

Recently someone close to me said a phrase that was meant to sound like reassurance, meant in a way that should have come across as a comfort to how negative I way being about myself.
I tried to laugh it off, but that one small word grabbed my by the throat and threatened to take away every breath I was trying to breath.

"You're not that fat"

Emphasis the last 2 words individually every time you read that sentence; Either way, it stung.

It took me a few hours to stop running it round and round my head.
It took a few days for me to understand how it should have sounded.
It's still taking me some time to throw it away all together.

I am my BIGGEST critic (who isn't), and I am lucky enough to be surrounded by cheerleaders who constantly tell me to not be so hard on myself and tell me how amazing, beautiful, gorgeous I am.
It takes me a long time to believe people, and when you believe someone the rest of the time, that one misspoken word then means so much more.

I am shaking this off, I am trying to make myself love my outer shell, because I love who I am, just not always how I look.
I got this!

Thanks for reading
Keep it Positive

Nessa

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