From sunset to sunrise

There are things in life that make you rethink all decisions you've made. All the little stuff you worried about. All the small things that seemed to run your life. Then something big happens and you realise how stupid you've been to let these things run and ruin the precious time you have here. Why do we get caught up in things? Why do we worry so much? Why do we focus on the smallest details and thus forgetting the bigger picture? Which is to enjoy life. Just simply enjoy every bit of it. Let go of the people that are selfish and are sucking you dry. Let go of the leechers and the negative ones. Just let them fly away so you could also spread your own wings without the weights holding you on ground level. 

Nothing good is ever easy, but the future you will look back and be ever so glad that you've done what had to be done in order to get the most out of your life. Because why do you bent over backwards for the heavy weights while you can fly with the weightless into a new and better day. Only you can make that happen.

  

Once everything is written down, it can be forgotten

There are things that happen in life, you somehow just can't get off your chest. You talk about some parts of it to loved ones, but somehow you can't go a day without thinking about it and fantasizing about different scenarios (the what ifs). 

I go through this quite a bit and I have told myself to just write down the entire story with all the details, so I'd be able to move on and forget about it. Some sort of personal therapy if you will. I find it very satisfying, only my wrist doesn't agree so much and because of that it does take long to get it all on paper, but it is so worth it. I already feel more at peace and I still have so much to write. 

Stella Mare: Cranberry Tangerine soy candle

So since this is the official 'Blue Monday', I thought why not post a little review on a little candle? A little happiness in the midst of this blueness if you will.

For Christmas I received two Stella Mare candles (amongst others), and this is the first one I've tried out. I was not familiar with this brand, but the packaging looked very cute and even though at first the scent seemed strong, when it's lit up, the room just smells so nice! In no way is it overwhelming. So I can't wait to try out the other one! These candles are hand poured, it's soy wax (Somehow I'm thinking about starbucks soy latte now...) and it's lead-free. So I guess these candles aren't harmful at all, not that I ever looked at that... Maybe I should in the future? I always buy them for the scent whenever I buy scented candles. But anyway, they burn up for 50 hours (I've been burning it for 3 days on and off and there's still over 50% left, so they could be right on this one) I guess you can only get these in the USA so I'll only have these 2 to last me for now :-( 

I really love scented candles, especially during the colder days. It makes me happy and makes my place cozy. And somehow I'm more productive when burning some candles... Not sure why, guess it has to do with the happiness :) 

Wandering around Cambridge

Aaaaand another blogpost finally! I have a bit more time now to post more often as I'm back from my vacation. I recently had the opportunity to roam around Cambridge for an afternoon and even though my feet were killing me (I only had new shoes with me, which were the one's I was wearing...) I did manage to walk around quite a bit. The city is smaller than I expected, and thus I did see the most of the older buildings thankfully! Otherwise I would've hopped on one of those 'hop-on hop-off' busses, even though these are pretty expensive. Either way since this was my first time in the UK all together, I really liked it there. The people are so friendly and warm, which sadly I'm not used to anymore. Anyway, there are many adorable little shops to check out, many cafe's, the museums are all free (this is so great!) and the buildings are quite spectacular to gaze upon. I wish I had better shoes and less heavy bags on me so I could've walked around further. Something for next time if I ever get the chance again!

Here some pictures I took (other ones are on my other blog):

The street where most of the old college buildings are on. 

Because of the font of this little cafe, I read 'nerd' instead of 'Nero',  I still like 'Caffe Nerd' better :D

A great little sweets shop. They had many older styles sweets in there which all looked lovely! I didn't take any since I was feeling a bit nauseated (nothing to do with the shop!)