Lacklustre mood

Deflated, deflated and vaguely irritated

At my completely lacklustre mood.

Nothing is ‘wrong’ yet nothing is right,

Darkness is starting to brood.

I don’t like this feeling that’s slowly creeping further into my psyche.

Preying on my gaiety, honing on the joviality,

Staining and bleaching the brightness,

Until they are dreary

and heavy

and lethargic

and dull.

Part of me surrenders to the gloom,

Relishing the self-wallowing, self-pitying state of boredom.

Selfishness avails in this castaway psychological island.

Dark clouds constantly loom above.

Sadness leads to madness and makes you feel drabness.

Ride the crest of these choppy waves until the storm passes.

Once the sea has settled, set your anchor and let the breeze comb your hair.

Stillness. Peaceful.  

Winter

Days like these are more like endless nights,

You forget the sun once shone.

The pretence of hibernation, yet I’m awake.

It’s nice to have the seasons but that thought doesn’t warm me when I’m chilled to the bone.

Wrapped up like an onion, layer upon layer of insulation.

Movements like a doll that won’t bend.

One consolation: the cold gives you carte blanche for copious amounts of hot chocolate.

Calories will be burnt in the winters chill.

All too soon in the distance future,

The days will be longer and warmer, the nights balmy and restless.

And I’ll reminisce, and long for one of those crisp, cosy days.

Not quite yet though. 

Experience, as in living.

I was speaking to a friend the other day and they said something really poignant which I wanted to post. We were discussing life experiences and having a varied career and general experiences and he commented that "life is about never standing still: the present is only ever temporary, so we should have enough memories of the past to help us through – more new things, more memories." I thought that was such a good message that I wanted to put it on my blog. 

I was then inspired to look at more quotes about experience that may also inspire you. I hope they do, as a New Year is time to reflect and declutter your life (but I think we should be doing that all year round, not just in January), so I hope I have helped you to view life in a different perspective. 

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. 

 -- Soren Kierkegaard 

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. 

 -- Oscar Wilde 

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. 

 -- William Osler 

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. 

 -- Aldous Huxley 

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. 

 -- Karl Kraus 

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. 

 -- Edgar Allan Poe 

Initial is superficial

Superficial is saturated but your soul is starving.

Life needs recharging, not your iPod.

Expensive trinkets look the part but it doesn’t matter when your heart’s not in it.

External is infernal sorrow.

Internal is eternally hollow.

Tomorrow comes too quickly because you drunk away today.

Your OMGs and WTFs seem less impressive on the screen.

It’s well reem or is that jel?

Jel of the girl who has some substance and ignores the nonsense.

What’s the sense in learning stuff?

Spell check can be your grammar

And the internet can be your general knowledge.

Common sense is so, like common, so you totes don’t need it.

Just can buy it, it will be cheaper that way.