Making friends with the crocodile

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A little while ago, someone I've met since being at uni asked me about my anxiety. They wondered why, during the first year of university it hadn't been there, why I'd seemed so much more happy and more confident? 

My alarm bells started ringing. I had no idea! Why had the anxiety come back? What was I doing wrong? Did they think I was a liar because it had seemingly appeared form nowhere? What was I supposed to say? I couldn't understand what was going on in my own head.

Project 365 - Days 31-40

Finally catching up, but you see there are a few more days missed here. I've noticed a pattern that if I'm not feeling brilliant, It end not to take pictures, even though they're the days I could really do with a distraction. 

I've noticed that more often the not, the times that we really need a distraction, to take break, or just take care of ourselves, are the times we're less likely to do it. At the minute it's something I really want to work on, and it'll be hugely beneficial in the long-run.

31/365

7.2.15

I'm a massive fan on Walking on Cars, and I got my hands on their EP, Hand in Hand recently, and I must say it's wonderful. So wonderful it inspired me to make a little doodle, which led to...

Project 365 - Days 21-30

More Project 365! Approaching the end of January and start of February I was still very much in anxiety's grip (well more so than now), and was struggling with tiredness and coping with the cold weather. But I started seeing the upside around that time, little by little. I had the first night out in a very long time which I enjoyed, and although it took a pretty bad turn, I was (in the end) proud of myself for handling it. So things are on the rise. 

21/365

28.1.15

Of course I'm a Snow Patrol fan - they tick all my music boxes. Soft Rock. Slightly gloomy. Irish.

Project 365 - Days 11-20

The next instalment of Project 365. This was the first time I slipped and missed a few days. Eventually I told myself to try to do it every day, but not beat myself up if I didn't. I've now decided that I'm not going to continue til I've got 365 pictures, but see how many I have by the time they year is up.

11/365

15.1.15

My first endeavour back into running for quite some time. Needless to say it was a little painful.

Project 365 - Days 1-10

It's fair to say that I don't always keep up with the ingenious schemes I come up with. So after being inspired by The Dainty Squid's version of Project 365, I decided to prove to myself that it was in fact possible to keep something up for more than a week.

The other side of it, was making me sit up and pay attention. Rather than letting everything pass me by, I thought that this could help me document the things that make me happy and appreciate them a little bit more.

I'm now approaching day 50, and even though I've missed the odd day, I'm pretty proud of keeping it up for this long, so here are the first ten instalments of my Project 365.

1/365 

5.1.15

My friend and I decided to visit the Conflict.Time.Photography exhibition at Tate Modern before we went back to uni after the Christmas holidays. It was a fantastic exhibitions, and the outing meant we had a good opportunity to talk about our degree, and the ups and downs of studying a creative subject.

It was as we were walking past St Paul's that I decided to bite the bullet and take on the Project 365 I'd been thinking about doing for so long.