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Since I discovered this amazing app 1 week ago it takes me ten times as long to get anywhere as i’m always stopping to take pictures. I love things like this as it’s not about the equipment you’ve got or anything like that it’s just about the image. It also really helps to keep me thinking creatively like e.g how would this look from that angle and i’ll try like 100 different ones and take 100 different photos. Instagram, if you have an iPhone it is a must and it’s freeeee so no excuse

Why do people need to get stressed out about tiny small things that they know really doesn’t matter so what’s the point in getting all worked up about something that isn’t important so you took a wrong turn and have to go back to find your way… Well just accept you made a mistake deal with it and get on with it there are so much more important things than stupid little every day occurrences that are just mistakes cause by humans, because humans make mistakes and if we don’t make mistakes we are not human at all.

Sorry people just re read my last post and it really doesn’t make sense

I know! If you know me you wouldn’t think this about me haha but I mean it is nice to have it we all love spending it but it causes everyone so much stress, concerns that you could really do without, worry etc like the saying goes money makes the world go round and it does those with it live the best of lives while those with the least of it lead the shittest lives. I’m not at all suggesting some kind of communist society where there are no rich there are no poor but the wealth is divided equally Imran whoever thought of that idea was living in a dream world like I mean yes it looks god in theory but in practice it’s never going to work, sooner or later you’ll get one greedy politician who would take all the money and run because he’s human and not just some number in a system. I guess we havnt changed much over the millions of years we’ve been on this floating rock in space, yes we have computers and phones and shit like that but our animal instincts are still there e.g lion feeds her cubs with a gazelle she has to go out and catch it for her cubs to eat and survive the same could be said about any working man with a family just replace hunting with a boring, dead end 9-5 and the gazelle with money and in the same way an animal would worry if it couldn’t find a meal we worry if we don’t have enough money to pay our bills and buy our food, we are just a race of urban animals trying to survive in the concrete jungle to be greeted at the end of the month a bank balance that is never going to be enough,we will always want more and more. People do stupid things for money, they lie, they cheat, they steal, go to war all the standard stuff really but why? All it is,it’s numbers on a screen going up and up, paper and coins, why for the sake of something so small do we do so much, I know in the modern age we need to go out and earn money (just like the lion) but will the single, lonely business man in his £11,000 suit and his Aston Martin really ever be as truly happy as the nan in the council flat with the best friends, family, girlfriend whatever….. You know so why worry about it you cant take it with you, if you have it spend it, enjoy it while you can if you have none you can still be happy you just need to look at it differently.

Thanks

Right, so haven’t done this for a while but I feel like a rant about what’s been going on with me recently. Finally got out of the job that I hated which was such a relief I was scared I was gonna be trapped there forever now looking back at it, it was one of those things that was a good experience and a good idea at the time which sounded good and looked good on paper but actually doing it was so dull and irritating I could’t possibly imagine much worse to be honest (well there are a few things that are a lot worse like war, famine, the black plague but lets not go there) in my experience of work anyway that was the shittest job I have encountered. Anyway! I managed to get myself a new job via my dad and with a lot of support and help from my family I managed to get it which was amazing! Now I live closer to work 5 days a week in West Sussex 10 mins from a great beach where I can windsurf and hopefully improve (not like that was the only reason I wanted the job or anything ha) a lot over the summer, looking to get sponsorship and compete for the first time ever in the 13 years that I have been windsurfing. But this part of the blog isn;t about windsurfing it’s about my new job, pretty much I make parts for formula 1 cars which sounds a lot better when someone asks you what do you do than I’m a sales assistant in a shop although I do have a lot more respect for shop assistants now after seeing what they have to go through on a day to day basis to make money. I almost turned this new job down which would have been such a stupid thing to do as I wanted to focus more on photography but for the time being taking over the world with my photographs can be put on hold haha (I joke I’m not that good really) but I realised that this is a great back up to ensure that I can be a photographer in the future so that if work dries up I’ve always got a plan B, I also realised that I’m young (i’m 17) I have years and years to achieve what I want to achieve and do the things I want to do. I always thought I was very much a person who operates in the present (I never really thought that far ahead only to a certain point until I had no clue what I was doing) but for once I thought ahead and the outcome has been something good so I think i’m going to try and incorporate that into myself more thinking ahead. Although I’m not generally driven by money (if I said that to my friends they would probably laugh, if I have money I spend it and lots of it haha it’s not good really but I think for now while i’m young and don’t have a mortgage, bills to pay, mundane things to pay for why shouldn’t I reward myself for my hard work ha) i’m more driven by how comfortable I feel in a position if I love my job obviously I will want to stay there If I don’t then visa versa which makes sense if you remove money from the equation it makes you think am I really happy here which is what is important to me.

Like I said before i’m nowl living in a new place surrounded by new people everything is new down here haha. Living near beaches is great too especially for me i’ve gone from not windsurfing at all to windsurfing up to 4 times a week clocking up a lot of hours on the water which is never a bad thing and I think being away from something for so long (I didn’t step on a board for a year) really changes your attitude towards it, before I was more timid with my sailing like if I wanted to learn something I wouldnt really go for it that hard but now I’m thinking if I want to be good at this I need to stop thinking about it and just fucking do it if I hurt myself or break some kit then fuck it at least I gave it my all and as a result of this during the past couple of weeks I have had some pretty big crashes and broke some gear but it was all in the name of fun, I try not to take windsurfing too seriously it is something I do for fun after all. Due to some pretty heavy winds recently tho it’s eneabled me to try some things I wouldn’t have normally tried like I find myself (after years of really wanting to) start sailing in waves which is awesome already I have tried not be a pussy and go for some stuff and am loving it loops are coming along I don’t think I’m close to landing them but still it’s cool to try. I think it has to be done by the saying if you try to do something hard enough eventually you will succeed and thats something i’m trying to live by at the moment.

Generally because of the current circumstances I am a lot happier than I have been for a long time I think once I pass my driving test the happiness will be taken to the next level just because i’ll have some independence not having to go where other people want to go all the time it’ll be cool just again I have to try as hard as I can and hopefully i’ll pass haha. A positive attitude towards living can never be a bad thing and I think with if you have a positive attitude positive things will happen to you.

Peace