Inpursuitof

I love Wednesdays. You wake up on the wrong side of the week but by 1pm you’re on the slippery slope to the weekend.

The only problem is, this is that thing your mum always told you not to do. “Don’t wish your life away, dear, or soon there won’t be any left.” Scratching off the tally of days in the week is like a desperate hike across the post-work evening mountains to the nirvana of the weekend. We’re all doing it, all waiting for something, something newer and full of possibilities. We went on holiday the other week, in the most beautiful part of the country with all of the most beautiful people I know, and still a little bit of me was looking forward to a few hours at home on Saturday night. How bloody ridiculous.

A sign in a shop on my way home today said that the three things one needs in life are someone to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I know for a fact 76.2% of us are neglecting that one in the middle. Today is a good day, full of great things. Unless we start enjoying the simple stuff, the thing we’re looking forward to will soon be the thing were doing and then where will we be?

So look up tomorrow. Look at the sky and dream big, but make sure you look at the weird little bits above the shops on your way to work, the 18th century gargoyle and the 1970s net curtains. Live the moment. You with me?

1) Half a twirl bar. This sort of chocolate sharing is entirely selfish and designed primarily to halve the calorie intake.

2) An engineer cuddled me today and it took me by surprise. I should have cuddled her back, but alas I was as a deer in lights.

3) A tourist who saw my gymnastic to save myself from falling off a kerb.