Appreciating Your Surroundings

One thing I am loving about this lockdown is the fact it is making you appreciate the surroundings you live in.

Mr L and I have lived where we live most of our lives, we both grew up here. I moved away for University and we lived one year away from this town.

But apart from that we have always lived here.

And even we are finding places that we never knew existed before.

We are finding walks we have never done.

We are finding areas off our usual walks.

And the boys are loving it.

And if I am totally honest so are we too.

We are finding beauty all around us.

And we have always been either not taking any notice or far too busy to ever notice it before.

But now we are slower.

Actually I don’t think that is true, yes we are being slower but that’s not actually it.

We have been forced to stay at home.

If we were free before this we would head to the beach no doubt about it, rain or shine.

Now we don’t have that option.

It is a good forty minute drive away.

Instead we have to appreciate what is around us.

And we really are.

And it is honestly beautiful.

And peaceful.

I am surprised how peaceful it is.

And how much we still don’t know around us.

It means that we are finding new places.

Getting a chance to explore and the boys are really learning about where they live.

And that I think is totally amazing.

Because we would have never have done this without this lockdown being imposed on us.

So this is definitely one positive to this whole crazy world we are living in at the moment.