A brand new journey

Have you ever been described as a worrier, worry wart or anything else associated with being a worrier? I have. All my life I have been known as a worrier. I would overthink something so much I would lose sleep or it would take over all of my thoughts and therefore, wouldn't enjoy being in the moment. To help me stop worrying (or worry less) my family tried to comfort me with "worrying is pointless, it doesn't solve anything." And I agree...to a certain extent. But now I am older, I have learnt to accept and control (to a degree) my worrying and take comfort in believing "What will be, will be." What this means to me is that there is only so much preparation or research we can do to achieve what we want, anything else is out of our control. For example, I am currently in Australia and before I finally found a place to live (Bondi and I absolutely love it) I was living in a hostel where the internet wasn't ideal. Therefore, I would wake up, get ...

After years of speculating whether I should start a blog or not - I have decided to take the leap and finally start one. I do realise that I might be a tad late to the "blogging party" but better late than never! So, the reason why I wanted to start blogging? Well first, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am 26, female and British who since final year of Primary School has kept an annual diary. In year 10 of Secondary School I decided that keeping a journal seemed more 'grown up' so since then, I have kept an annual journal. Anyway, my passion for writing all started when I was given a diary at Christmas and fell in love with seeing my thoughts, hopes and dreams on paper. For some reason, it made everything come to life once I had written it down and because my diaries were, of course, private - it made it more special. Now I am older, it has turned into something that's very therapeutic for me. I enjoy reading my journal at the end of the year a...