Learn how to romanticize the mundane

The moment my life started to not feel boring was when I started pretending it wasn’t. 

I know that comparison may be seen as the thief of joy, but while scrolling through Pinterest one night, something just clicked. 

I was looking at all these seemingly perfect pictures and I caught myself thinking, “Why doesn’t my life look like that?”

Then, I realized I had been sitting around waiting for something exciting to happen when maybe I just needed to start seeing my own life like it already was something special. 

Before that, my days were all kind of blurred together. I wasn’t unhappy by any means, I was just stuck in the same rhythm of work, school, extracurriculars, repeat. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t exciting either. 

While looking through social media, I could see that people really only post highlight reels. 

Photos of themselves doing fun things, traveling or even making their daily routines seem aesthetic.

I felt like I was missing out on something, until I realized that most of those “perfect” lives weren’t all that different from mine, they just cut their clips for a “day in my life.”

So I decided to start treating my everyday moments like they were worth something too. 

I started by planning my outfits ahead of time, even color coordinating my calendar just because it made me feel actually organized.

I carved out time to work out, make coffee in the mornings and actually get to sit down and enjoy it. 

I started going to coffee shops to get my work done, going on solo dates whenever I wanted to and actually making myself breakfast instead of constantly waking up right before I needed to leave. 

I even started taking candid photos of the little things just because. 

Little by little, it did start to feel different.

I stopped waiting for some big, life-changing event to make me happy. Instead, I found small pieces of joy in the mundane.