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24 Feb 2023
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Faith N

What are the little things that you do to make life feel that bit better?

I guess the money waves, like the little things that make me feel a bit better, especially with the crushing cost of living crisis. Well, it has dominated into my mental health crisis. It's basically just to take time to breathe, to find something in the day that makes me feel happy, like walking outside my house, and I live to the left of this beautiful mountain, and it just does genuinely make me feel a little bit better. It's not going to solve all the problems alive, especially with the cost of living over here being so high, but it does make me acknowledge that there are some things that are decent and nice and nature is just one of the things that I love. And now that the nicer weather is coming in, one thing that my friends started to do with me whenever I went on to Universal credit, was that every Saturday she takes me and the children out with her child and just having something to look forward to makes life just that little bit better. So I'm really looking forward tomorrow, Saturday, to probably going for a wee drive or going to Ikea, just to like, window shop or just going for a coffee. And it's just really something each week that me and the kids kind of count down to Saturday, where we look forward to that. Because I don't drive, it's that exciting, being in somebody else's car and being chauffeured about. So I guess it's just finding little tiny things that don't cost the earth to try to look forward to every wake or every day, just to make life that little bit better. With everything that's going on around in the world.

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Changing Realities (2023), Faith N. https://changingrealities.org/e/QvKpE (24 Feb 2023)
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