Walking through wet grass!

After my moan of last time I decided I wanted some tips on how to be less stressed and relax more. So I looked on the internet and came across some ideas to help de-stress. They were not every day things or long term things, but I just thought they were nice. There were loads of them, but here are a few that I thought ‘yep – that would be nice right now!’:

Walk barefoot in wet grass – has anyone ever done that?!! I used to on a warm summer night at the house I grew up in, just as it got dark and the grass was beginning to get dewy. So relaxing and invigorating – I wonder why?

Watch the sunset – Always special, especially when the scenery around is beautiful too and it’s nice and warm.

Have a picnic – I really fancy one right now. I’d like to dress up in a pretty dress and go to a field full of long grass and wild flowers and eat salmon sandwiches and cake!!!!

Swim when it’s raining – I’ve done this before in the sea at Cornwall and it’s so refreshing.

Get up early and watch the sunrise – I’ve often wanted to do this, just need to learn to drag myself out of bed one nice summer morning. It would be really nice to go somewhere beautiful and read the Bible as the sun rises. I always think that would be such a great spiritual time.
Go and watch 2 movies in one day and have a pizza and some wine in between the two – Sounds great to me!!!

Trouble is, most of them would only really work in the summer, but imagining some of these things really brings back some lovely memories and I can almost smell the summer! I can particularly imagine the one about walking through wet grass with bare feet. It reminds me of many a summer night where the weather was nice and warm and I’d love to be in Dad’s garden. It smelt so fresh with all the flowers that he grew! And sometimes we’d have the fountain going in the pond and the smells and the sounds in the dusk were all such a wonderful way to relax and be content. I hope this summer we all still feel able to do that and that although it might be sad, it will bring back some wonderful memories for us.

Memories are such funny things – they can give the most wonderful warm feelings inside and bring a smile to the face, while at the same time bringing feelings of pain, especially if they are memories you can never re-live. However, I can cope with crying at memories when they are such wonderful ones. So now I’m just waiting for the summer to roll on!!