Filling Our Cups with Glimmers

Glimmers. My most spoken word at the minute other than bastards, which I’m also very fond of. I’ve been banging on about glimmers for the last 84 years on my socials, and I am so here for it.

Before we get down and dirty with the glimmers, I’ll rewind a little.

Glimmers are the small moments throughout the day that make your soul shine. They are the moments where you take a deep breath and think ah this is nice. They are the things you encounter throughout the day. The things that keep you going and help you survive the hard times.

For the last week or so (maybe more it depends when I finally publish this post), I have been sharing my glimmers on my socials. My main reason for doing this was to hold me accountable and make sure I look for them throughout the day.

Life is so crazy most of the time, that forgetting to stop and take a moment is inevitable. So sharing them on social media was my way of making sure I stop and take notice of the little things.

I was then met with lots of messages saying they love that I do this and it’s been reminding them to do it too. This makes my soul shine. My glimmer is you are glimmering hehe.

On a recent birthday trip to the Cotswolds, after a lushious day visiting the zoo and a Christmas shop, I decided to have a bath at the hotel. I don’t have one at home anymore and I really miss it.

I actually got stuck in said bath. Not because I’m chunky but funky, it was because I’ve hurt my shoulder and add that to the chronic illness that keeps trying to kill me I didn’t have the energy to get out. I was rolling around in there like some kind of drunken shark. Thrashing about like I had no business being there. I thought I was going to have to live in there. This was my life now. The girl who lived in a bath tub.

I’m not sure how I made it out in the end. I kind of just launched myself out of that bad boy. Like to think I did a gymnastics landing, but I very much doubt that. More like an octopus being shot through a cannon.

So, anyways, me and my glittery ghost bath bomb bestie reflected on the glimmers of the day and I realised that the whole day had been one big glimmer.

It made me think that the small glimmers we look for throughout each day are to help us survive until we can have a whole day full of one big glimmer.

My first thought was aww that’s a bit sad. But then I thought life is life and we can’t have one whole day full of one big glimmer everyday. It’s not sustainable and it’s not real life unfortunately. Boo!

So me and my glittery ghost bath bomb bestie, who was now more of a slush pile than anything else, thought you know what that’s okay. Even if on some days we have to look really, really hard to find them, and some days there may only be one, but they are there. And they can help us enjoy life that little bit more in between the really fun, soul beaming stuff.

Try it! Try and look for the glimmers each day. Post them to social like I do, write them down or you can even send them to me. Anything to hold you accountable, so you are always looking for them.

Today’s one can even be laughing at me fearing for my life being trapped in a bath tub. I’ll give you that one for free 😉

K! Love you bye!!

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