Holiday

Dictionary's definition: a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment.

In my exemption from any requirement, I have decided to require myself of needs I have forgotten about over time..needs to look after myself, and my body. I want to share my learning with my readers.

Step 1. Excercise
Everyone knows that not only does excercise help you to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight but it also helps to lower blood pressure, calm nerves and ease stress and depression. When we excercise we should think of it as more of a necessity, a luxury..an incentive to happiness rather than a chore that makes us unhappy, red in the face and panting like a dog thats been running for two days straight. Excercise in the way that suits you best, think back to when you were a child and what you loved to do! You know it! So Follow what your body aches to do and go out and get fresh air into your lungs..you'll sleep like an angel.


Step 2. Lose your habits.
Everyone loves the phases of freedom, the phrase 'independant' and most importantly feeling that self achievment once we have done something for ourselves. So, when we think about it in depths our habits are just obsticles in the way of achievment. Excessive partying, Smoking, Internet usage.. Somehow moderation has offered humanity a new way of life which we were convinced was just as healthy as before. Exchanging reading books for reading reviews or summaries online ISN'T the same. Staying healthy..feeling slim.. swapping snacks for cigarettes is definatley NOT the same and very very unhealthy, and partying, drinking...drug usage? Just procrastination of the inevitable. The truth we must face is, that life is waiting for us to grab it and make the most of it while we lay back and use as many obsticles to get in the way of it.

Two days ago I decided to stop smoking altogether. I have smoked for a year and though I have thought about it many times..I am choosing to live my life fully and stop picking the easy ways out. I have spent hours tonight researching about quitting and know I am making the right decision.
Smoking is not a way of life, It's a way of avoiding it.
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3. Open your eyes, To the beauty of life. And the people in it.

Imagine being all alone..forever. Just you. Close your eyes and think about how you would talk to yourself..how you would wish that someday the phone would ring, how excessivley you would write in your diary...
Open your eyes. There are people all around you. People you don't know, but who you might know at some point in your life. Don't procrastinate this! Go and talk to them, find a reason..because you have one life, you sit around and think how do people have so many friends and then find the loud cheery people on the busses annoying. There are people you do know and love, appreciate them! They cheer you up with their phonecalls..so turn the t.v. down and listen to them, balance out your relationships in life..it will be your key to equilibrium. One thing us creative writers do, is write in our journals. Nostalgically, metpahorically, dramatically and emotionally. But when we do not write, we go out and find reason to write..stories to reminisce about and we are allowed to reflect. But we enjoy life much more, when thoughts don't cross our minds as often and we can feel free. So enjoy this freedom.

Zara
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