Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Easing back into normality
AS much as I love the fact life is back to normal and we are out and about again doing things that we couldn’t do, does anyone else feel a bit overwhelmed at times?
If I were to go and do everything I wanted to this past few weeks, I would barely have time to see my children, or do anything else for that matter.
Is this an age thing, a sign of getting older, or just a sign that sometimes we need to learn to say “no” and look after ourselves?
I have a chest infection, I feel really run down at the moment and I am on antibiotics.
Recently, I have been saying “yes” to everything, but it’s finally caught up with me.
Now and again our bodies will tell us to slow down and I think we need to learn to see the signs and chill a bit.
Who cares if we miss the odd event? Just because we missed so much for two years due to a pandemic doesn’t mean we now need to “make up for it”.
I, for one, am just trying to ease myself back in.
The number of concerts coming up this summer in Scotland is brilliant to see, but can we go to all of them? The reality is, probably not.
If you are feeling the strain of life right now, take time out for you. You wouldn’t let your phone battery run below 10% without charging it, so why do that to your body?
Seeing the latest photos and videos doing the rounds from Glastonbury – which is this weekend – is bringing back all the T in the Park memories – the days of hitting Balado with pals, backpacks, tents and the sledge with the “carryoot” being dragged into the camping area.
Not knowing how you were going to put a tent up because you haven’t in your life, but hoping someone in the group knew what they were doing.
Come rain or shine, that atmosphere was always electric.
You’d wake up after about three hours’ sleep, unwashed, hungover, then hear the echoes of some people singing, which would work its way around the campsite.
Before you knew it, you were up, wellies back on and ready for another day of it.
But first you had to collect your phone which you’d left at some random charging station. One hundred missed calls from your mum, she’s having a panic attack while you didn’t have a care in the world.
There are two types of people – the ones who take the wristbands off the day after the festival and then the ones who never take them off. Rumour has it there are still people wearing T in the Park bands on their wrists to this day.
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