Romanticising every day life

This is a concept that was doing the rounds on Tiktok a while back. This is all about romanticising the dull, the everyday and the boring aspects of adult life.

Now I don’t mean some toxic positivity bull shit of smiling and staying positive on a shitty day. This is just kind of about finding beauty in the little moments, because adult life is mostly boring and rubbish. Sometimes when work has been busy and all I’ve done is go to work, come home, eat, shower go to bed and do it all over again, and again, and again, it is really hard to feel like a person.

That’s why I like this idea of taking time to appreciate a bit of every day beauty, or ‘gratitude in the present moment’. Like a good cup of coffee and a second of peace, a pretty view on my drive home, seeing a human do something innocuous and cute, my music hitting the mood just right, or, when I find myself doing something at work that me of five years ago wouldn’t have thought herself capable of.

Think of the main character energy of an insufferable ‘not like other girls girl’ in a tacky rom-con, who makes some ridiculous speech about the beauty of a puddle or some ridiculous shit. You have to carry that energy (but not vocalise it because every one will hate you).

If you search this on Tiktok you will get a lot of pretentious videos of pretty girls saying they romanticising every day life by eating strawberries for breakfast or some bullshit.

But I’ve found that, as a glass half empty person, whose naturally a pessimistic bitch, actively trying to reflect and find these nuggets of joy has become important towards making me a happier person.

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