How are you all doing hivers and friends of thoughtful community 🥰💕.

Thanks to God its another Friday running in the month of February. Another weekend to a good rest. Although many of us still works through Saturdays, making Sundays the only day for a rest in a 7 days. But that is how things has turned out to be.

I remember while growing up as a kid, and seeing my father go out everyday for businesses except on Sundays, but then, every evening he comes back, he will ask and send one of my senior siblings to buy him a bottle of beer 🍺 to relax and unwind with. And while he is relaxing, we will all seat together as a family over the Tv 📺, discussing over things and laugh 😆 together.

And my mother as a petty trader, will always take care of the house the little way she could before leaving for her business place. The rest work, we the children will finish up when we are back from school. This is the style of living we were brought up with, and I know many of you were also brought up through this way.

What then happened? Why has the times changed so drastically? Why is this generation and era bringing us to many STRESS AND STRUGGLES? Should it be seen as something that has to do with change? Or the issue of how we have too many dreams at the same time? Maybe this has to do with how the government of this recent time has left us with nothing to lean on. I think 💭 this is where the problem lies which makes everything to much of a burden.

Stress is becoming that enemy that is depriving us the joy 🤩 we need as humans who are supposed to be happy with life while chasing our dreams. But I tell you that you can have control over those struggles and live life to the fullest because we can always look for that one way to make ourselves happy 😃. Yes! We can always be in control.

I have decided to always be in charge of my emotions by not allowing the struggles I go through in every day activities to take over my happiness at the end of the day. I decided that I can only be happy 😃 in life, if I see everyday as an opportunity to be grateful 😇 with the things I need to achieve and those that I need to leave for another day. I have decided to always go home, feeling good and with expectations to unwind with my loved 🥰 ones maybe over a movie 🎥, some light evening music 🎵 or a whole evening full of laughable stories.

The problem with this times is that everyone is at the same bus - stop whereby no one is asking you how are doing. Or what are you feeling, Where the faces you come across everyday looks so gloomy and unmotivated. Some scary 😟, others pitiful. These are what the times has caused so many, but in all, we can be the exceptional ones who has refused to be brought down by STRESS.

You can decide and choose your own way of unwinding every evening which will help keep you refreshed and relaxed 😎. You might choose some movie 🎥 series that you go back on every evening, it could be games you love 💕 on your smartphone or preferably, music 🎶 that enlightens the soul, be it classic, blues or gospel. You need something to always refresh your heart ♥️ as it helps you feel good to rest properly for the next day.

However, times are truly hard that we might not be in the mood to always wants to unwind and refresh, but the opposite is doom where our hearts are glued to the problems that we are surrounded with that will keep eating deep into our emotions. An evening with a clear head will help give us a good night rest to kick start another new morning.

Thank you for visiting and reading my blog . Enjoy a restful weekend hivers 🥰💕

Best Regards @sunshine29 🧡

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