Thursday I came home from work after a few days away &, as a neighbour held the door to the communal hallway open for me, I saw much to my confusion that somehow my 2017 Tony Robbins Date with Destiny vision-board poster was lying on the floor of the reception area. Yep opened out wide for all to see, for god knows how long 😱 Utter mortification & perhaps more so, complete stupefaction how that came to be flooded my body 🤯 It was like I’d been super pranked, which I kind of had by a window cleaner or an attempted burglar, as that is the only way I can imagine it came to be there. I had been using it to block light in the bedroom over summer (sorry Tone) so had the paper caught in the window frame so whoever it was was on a ladder & must’ve pulled it out somehow then decided to share it with the whole block because it’s just so brilliant? 🤷🏽‍♀️ In any case , the good news is the rest of the flat was intact so it seems it is just a case of tackling the supreme embarrassment of sharing my intimate thoughts with my neighbours head-on. I can’t wait to catch veteran resident Don in the hallway next week who will undoubtedly interrogate me regards my quest to become a beacon of light 💡ha what fun! I was feeling quite embarrassed about it & was planning on denying all knowledge but you know what there’s no shame in Love & Joy & whilst I wasn’t thrilled to be oversharing with my neighbours, (one has already given me a bemused face in the car park) I’m also sharing it with you now because just maybe spreading love, light & joy IS my purpose, like possibly it is for all of us, & perhaps the universe needed to remind me & so took extreme measures to make sure I got the message 🥰 No longer a makeshift sun shade, here I am owning my 2017 self & renewing her pledge 💛

You are weird & wonderful, but thank you cosmic powers that be, I won’t forget again.

Another gorgeous thing about Thursday I’m grateful for is after that little discovery I went to Nandos for my gorgeous friend Rahels birthday. A wonderful time was had & afterwards I went to pay in the multi storey car park but had an issue with the machine. I talked to the attendant in the kiosk which led to him very sweetly giving me free parking. This was unexpected as I had already counted out my pennies perfectly so it was an unnecessarily kind gesture but we had had a funny little spar because I was complaining that the prices didn’t match the website, but it was all very jovial & he ended up doing me this good deed & we had a little joke. I thanked him & as I walked away I felt warm & lovely from the encounter. So much so when I drove through the barrier I pressed the intercom buzzer that I knew connected to his office & when he answered I told him I loved him!!! I should mention that there had been no attraction or chemistry etc of any sort between us, just two people solving a problem. So I don’t know fully what came over me as it was very spur of the moment & I wished I’d filmed it because… he told me he loved me back! Honestly there is something so ridiculously touching about being told you are loved by a complete stranger. It’s extremely powerful & I feel it now just recounting it. I felt it also watching a series of posts by LaLaKindnessCafe on Instagram recently which features “Drive by kindness” where some lovely peeps shout compliments & declarations of love from a car at people.

Isn’t it eye wettingly gorgeous?! Kindness is the best.

I’m not sure how my parking attendant friend felt about my love based Tourettes, prob thought I was a complete nutcase & had his finger poised on the panic button, but from my perspective it was just beautiful; completely innocent, & free of ANY chirpse like interaction. He had only saved me a pound for gods sake but the beauty of two strangers harmoniously interacting, was divine & do you know what, I also appreciated it massively because there had been zero male creepiness which I have been griping a lot about lately & is so commonplace. So seriously it’s a bit odd I know, but I encourage everyone to tell a stranger you love them. It feels unbelievably good to both say it & receive it & I’ll tell you why I believe that is… it’s because we are one. We are all one & the same. Connected, cut from the same cloth, all tiny cogs of the same machine & rely on one another more heavily than we could ever fathom. So really we are just loving ourselves, it’s bloody beautiful. I’ll be using these three powerful words more regularly now on because it fills my heart & brings us all closer & I think we can all do with a bit more of that. So just in case I haven’t made it abundantly clear, I love you.

Love love love, may we bandy it around like confetti.

Ps If you cant bring yourself to say it to a stranger, then maybe a loved one or a friend or maybe just as you put the phone down on a call centre phone call or similar! That would be fun, sooo going to be my new sign off!! Everyone loves to hear it & I’ve just found out how much I love to say it, maybe you will too & it can only have positive consequences.

Love you, bye x