Date Day & Something A Little More Serious...

This past week we recreated one of our very first dates as a couple that first happened four years ago. Time has flown by, it really has. It was perfect then and it was even more perfect this time around. The Derbyshire Dales are so gorgeous and I will never tire of going for a country drive. These drives are even better if they result in picking up pudding from Bakewell. We were just getting to know each other four years ago, the 200 mile distance felt like such a hindrance at first, but after hours spent on Skype, we were instantly inseperable. Four years later I still get those butterflies when he reaches out to clasp my hand with his. ♥

I am so happy.

xoxo

P.S. Okay, so this is something I will address once and only once, it has simply reached the point where, unfortunately, it needs to be said. Over the past two years that I have been blogging here I have been very lucky not to receive a large amount of nasty comments. Now when I say nasty comments I am not talking about comments which contain differing opinions to my own, that's something different altogether, that's normal & a healthy thing to have happen because not everyone is the same and that's what makes society, culture and life in general so wonderfully diverse and colourful. I'm simply talking about nasty hate filled comments that serve no purpose at all other than to waste the time of the writer who sadly doesn't appear to have anything more constructive to do with their time. 

These sorts of comments have increased a little recently and so far as I can tell they're all written by the same person, they all have a similar tone, use of punctuation and the words chosen are very consistent. I also know exactly who this person is and all that I can say about that is, I'm very disappointed. I thought better of you. If you dislike me that much; you think my life is boring, my paragraphs are too long, you even hate the little hearts I put on my instagram pictures, then I strongly suggest you don't follow my twitter account, my instagram or my blog anymore. It's not healthy! I'm completely aware that not everyone is going to like me, that's just part of life & I don't expect every comment to shower me with compliments, but this is going too far the other way. 

Every hate filled comment simply gets deleted and I will not give it a second thought. I'm very lucky that I'm that little bit older now and I'm lucky that over the last couple of years I've grown into generally quite a secure person with a life filled with smiles, happiness and wonderful things to look forward to. I can only hope that the person who is leaving me such nasty comments isn't doing it to other girls too, perhaps younger girls or girls that aren't quite as content and confident with every aspect of their lives just yet. Nasty words can cut deeper than you could ever imagine when you're not in the best of places in life. You have no idea about everything going on in someone's life, they could be having a completely terrible time of it and are trying their very best to put a brave face on and concentrate on the positives until some twonk comes along and ruins everything. I know because I've been there and it was the worst time of my life. Don't be that twonk. 

So before leaving a hurtful, nasty and venomous comment perhaps just take a moment to consider the consequences of your actions, consider clicking that X in the corner of the screen and concentrating on making yourself happy that day instead of trying to ruin someone elses.

If you have received any horrible comments, please please please don't take the words to heart. Delete it, shake it off & don't ever give it a second thought. You're better than that.