Tag: dailyprompt

“Honestly, just work on making your life worth the while, we’re only here for a short while”

Nature’s Magic

There’s something deeply soothing about being out in nature.

I haven’t explored the beach enough to say I’m a beach girl, but if you asked me right now, I’d pick the woods without a second thought.

Trees swaying gently in the wind, birds chirping their little hearts out, a waterfall humming in the background… that’s my kind of peace.

And let’s not forget palm trees,absolutely gorgeous.

Okay, truthfully, I don’t get to experience this every single day. So yes, maybe this was a little random. But I thought it was an everyday thing because it feels like home in my heart.

Then I reread the prompt and had a “wait a minute” moment. So I recalibrated. Now here goes…….

1.Family

(who knew?) If teenage me could hear this, she’d be rolling her eyes so hard. But here we are. These days, my family is my everything,my soft landing, my warmest blanket. My mom especially. The past month, she’s been helping me hold it together, piece by piece. And honestly, just knowing I have that kind of love? Fills me up in all the best ways.

2.Slow, Sweet Mornings

There’s a certain magic to my mornings when I’m home. The rhythm of routine, the comfort of our back porch, and the easy banter over breakfast, it’s golden. It’s what I miss most when I’m away.

3.A Damn Good Conversation

This one deserves a standing ovation. A genuinely good conversation? Oh, that’s soul food. I live for talks filled with energy, intent, curiosity, and heart. The kind where someone’s really listening and you’re really seen.

4.Learning Something New

There’s joy in growth. In little lessons tucked into ordinary moments. I’m always learning, always curious, and that constant discovery? Definitely lights me up.

5.Gratitude

This one’s the real MVP. I’ve been working on practicing gratitude for what feels like forever and lately, I’m all in. It changes everything. I swear, this is the cheat code to life.

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Believe it or not I wanted to be a journalist when I was five.

I’ve said it before, when everybody else wanted to be a lawyer, a doctor…I stuck with “I want to be a journalist when I grow up”

It stuck. It grew on me.

Many years down the line, I was in Uni studying communications.

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

I’ve thought so hard about this.

I read it in the morning then I figured, I might have figured something out come evening.

I have genuinely sat with this, but nothing is forthcoming.

So what’s coming forth is, I genuinely do not have any secret skill or I am just satisfied with the skills I have. The latter is an outright lie though.

I know there’s a secret skill I’d wish to have. I just really needed to think thoroughly over this.

Cheers🫶

What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?

Today’s prompt just brought a huge grin on my face.

I love ink. I appreciate tattoos.

I have tiny cute weird ones that I love love so much.

I’m still trying to figure out what my next one should be. I want it to be very very sentimental. It might be my offspring’s name, I don’t know.

What is one word that describes you?

Authentic.

What was the best compliment you’ve received?

I have been told a bunch of times that my presence is calming.

Hear this out,..

While other people appreciate how authentic I am, some have told me “Val you don’t have to be entirely authentic” This blows my mind every time. I would never ever want to torment myself like that. Genuinely, those are the people I run away from because how on earth can you advise a person, on not being entirely their true selves and somehow you manage to sit down with yourself and be okay!!!

I am still trying to find out why authenticity should be such a bother to people.

On Sunday, another sweet soul told me “you are overly kind, and you should change that” I lost it. I promise I broke down. Totally.  I’m not daft, I know when to be chill and when to bring out my claws, I just don’t like reacting to things that are bound to disturb my peace. I choose my battles. Smartly. Most times I’m just chill.

In the last few weeks I’ve been told about a bunch of things that I shouldn’t be, and everything I’ve been told not to be, is what I love being.

Again, in the last four weeks alone I’ve been told by more than four people, “when you love, you love extremely and that’s where you go wrong”

In a world where I’ve been told, don’t be too authentic, don’t be too kind, don’t love extremely, I wouldn’t know how to exist I promise. So the smartest thing to do is smile at those remarks and rub them off as soon as they are thrown at me. It’s a messy world out here.

I’d love to protect my cacoon.

That was a whole rant I know, but the point is, the most rewarding compliment I’ve received is about my presence being calming.

Cheers🫶

Who is the most confident person you know?

Yet to meet one,

I only know a bunch of cocky humans who mistake that for confidence.

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

I just went over my mind and then I sighed because damn Val, you don’t play? You don’t have any fun?

“Things didn’t entirely turn out to be what I wanted them to, they turned out to be entirely how they should have been.”

Not even close.I had a whole different view of what my life would have been today.

Even though things didn’t entirely turn out to be what I wanted them to, they turned out to be entirely how they should have been.

I learnt to be present as I do the best I can.

So yeah, I couldn’t be more grateful.

What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?

Learning how to regulate my emotions is the best thing I’ve achieved so far.

I couldn’t be more grateful.