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Long term readers (first time writers?) will be aware I sometimes get the inspiration for these blogs from songs.

Sometimes it’s a song I haven’t heard before or for a while and a lyric or two jumps out.

Sometimes a song I’ve heard many, many times and just, one day, for no apparent reason, something clicks.

I had two the other weekend.

The first?

Anyone recognise the song from the lyric in the title?

“Do you remember barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars?”

1985’s ‘Kayleigh’ by the band Marillon.

Essentially a love letter to an ex, the eponymous Kayleigh.

Recounting all their great times together.

And wondering if it’s worth giving it another go.

Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall?
Do you remember dawn escapes from moon washed college halls?
…….. the cherry blossom in the market square
I thought it was confetti in our hair
Barefoot on the lawn with shooting stars
The loving on the floor in Belsize Park
Dancing in stilettoes in the snow
You never understood I had to go

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

Like all former relationships do if we concentrate on the best bits.

But, there’s usually a reason they are exes.

The human brain is very good at looking at the past in rose coloured spectacles.

And finding the present comparing unfavourably.

We’ve mentioned before that most of the people we’ve seen say how bad 2020 is / was the most………….

Said the same about 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019!

We know 2020 (and 2021 so far) has particular challenges………..

But if we focus on the very best bits of the past………..

And compare them to the day to day of today…………

We’ll never be happy.

Happiness can only ever exist in the present moment.

We might have reasons to have less happy moments right now…………

But, when we stop taking them for granted, we’ve got plenty of reasons to be happy still left!

Much love,

Jon ‘Misplaced Childhood’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.