Feeling alive! ~ Sydney Royal Easter Show

Hey everyone, 

I'v just got home half an hour ago from the Sydney Royal Easter show and had an amazing time! While everything is still fresh in my brain and I'm still buzzing from the excitement I decided that I wanted to write about how amazing life is and how precious it is as well.

I realised how much excitement and joy you can get out of going to an event such as the easter show. The atmosphere, entertainment, music, lights and adrenaline you get is incredible and at the end of the night you feel so content with life. 

Rides have got to be one of the most fun inventions and they give you so much satisfaction once you have been on one. Some people will wait in line for ages just for a couple of minutes of adrenaline rush but it shows how easily us humans are fulfilled. Its funny to think that we can be so satisfied and happy from doing an activity that scares us but its true we really do enjoy that. We enjoy the butterflies in our stomach and we enjoy the suspension of what is it going to be like. I realised how alive I felt after going on these rides and after all I had on my mind was that I should enjoy these moments and really take in the atmosphere around me. 

Another aspect that gives you similar enjoyment is fireworks. The colour bursting in the sky is so appealing to us for some reason and the sound of the fireworks banging is so satisfying too. When you watch them in the sky you forget everything and feel on a high with life and that nothing else matters. The world is amazing how it can allow us to create things such as fireworks like who would have thought that such an explosion could be used to celebrate for so many occasions. 

To sum up my rambling I had an amazing time tonight with my friends and family making memories and enjoying the entertainment. Its important to remember these times and cherish them because not every day do you get to be on the high from rare activities such as rides and fireworks. 

What are you thoughts on theme parks, events and big celebrations such as the easter show? 

Ella x 

Yum Breakfast! - Fruit Parfait

One of my favourite breakfasts to make on those mornings that I have some extra on your hands is a parfait. It is refreshing, pretty, healthy and filling and is very easy to make. It can be quite hard to master the layers but even if the smoothie does seep though it still tastes amazing!            

                 Ingredients
Smoothie
 - 1 hand full of frozen raspberries

 - 1 hand full of frozen blueberries

 - Half a banana 
 - Half a cup of juice of your choice
  (I used apple & mango)

Fillings

- Grapes
- Oats
- Clusters/granola 
- dried apricots 
- cinnamon sugar 
- Frozen berries

                   Method
1)Put your raspberries, blueberries, banana and juice in the blender and blend until it is the consistency you want. 

2) Pour a small amount of the smoothie into a glass.

3) Then add a layer by using any of the fillings. This will prevent the next layer of smoothie seeping through.

4) Continue steps 1 and 2 until you reach the top

5) Decorate your parfait with fruit and cinnamon sugar if you wish. Enjoy!

Procrastination!

Procrastination has got to be one of the worst habits! I'm sure majority of us do it because it is such a difficult thing to avoid. Right now I should be doing my maths revision which I promised myself I'd finish two days ago... But then again I get distracted. If I don't have something which needs to be done and have spare time on my hands suddenly I will decide to be bored out of my brain, like why does that happen? 

Its so hard to prioritise and put things in perspective because from my point of view I think it is important to have fun when you're young, try new things and have experiences because you are learning from that. But then on the other hand I think its also so important to get an education because thats what society is expected to do today and will help you get a career in the long run. Then again how are us teenagers supposed to know what we want to do for the rest of our life at such a young age. Since we don't know we lack motivation to do the work so we don't try hard enough to do it all get it done. I'm not speaking on behalf of all of us because some people are amazing at getting there work done and achieving things. But for some of us teenagers who have no clue what we want in life like me we just want to have fun and learn from our experiences. 

I think everything in majority is the right answer and we should know that if we make a mistake its okay, we will learn from it and it will make us who we are. Don't really know how I started talking about procrastination and then went to the topic becoming who you are but I guess in relating to procrastination, I and others who find it hard to focus just need to find our priorities and aim for our best. 

Ella x

Can you run out of satisfaction?

Hey everyone,
So last night before I went to bed I started having one of those moments when your brain decides to over think absolutely everything thing and come up will silly scenarios which aren't really worth thinking too deeply about. This happens to me quite frequently and sometimes my thoughts can actually really bother me but there is nothing really I can do to change this but instead I decided to write it down and one day look back and see how things have changed.

Anyway my insane thinking last night was about being too happy and achieving too much. I'm not too sure what promoted this thought but it popped into my head anyway. Of course being a typical teenage girl who usually over thinks things I start to over analyse this and jump to conclusions. Some of the things I was asking myself were if you live in the moment too much now, strive to reach your goals and are really enjoying yourself can you reach certain amount of satisfaction in life? Like is there a limit? This thought isn't very encouraging because its basically saying don't push yourself and take the easy ride in life instead. I guess to some a extent that's fine but if I am only choosing that option because I don't want to run out of satisfaction that is ridiculous. I realised that life has no limit really and people can do so many things to achieve satisfaction because if you think about it there is never going to be something you haven't done before, there is never going to be an experience you haven't been though and there are always going to be new people to meet, learn and aspire to.

To sum this up I have come to the realisation that you never know which day could be your last and as corny and well known that saying is it is very true. People should strive to do the things they love each day and once they have achieved one goal set another and then another. Life is an ongoing journey and you never know what is around each corner but a great way to live your life is by remembering that if you are doing the things you love and what makes you happy you are being successful and that if life was taken away from at any moment you will know who have lived it the way you wanted to. Satisfaction with life will never run out because there is always going to be another hurdle, surprise and opportunity awaiting you. So basically all you really need to do is enjoy the ride and be amazed at what is to come.

I hope this can help out someone else as well as myself because our thoughts can really effect us and we can't let them rule us so I think knowing that other people feel the same at times came be really encouraging.

Enjoy your day :)
Ella x