Swimming to Lundy

by Amanda Prowse

look, there’s more to life than this. You need to be happy; you need to do something that makes you laugh every day. You need to spend your time in a way that means when you climb into bed at night, you feel content and you don’t dread the alarm going off the next morning, full of fear or sickness at the prospect of having to get up and do it all again.’

I can’t count the times I said to myself that when I reached X or when I did Y then I’d be happy – things would be better, easier. But there was always another X or Y on the horizon and I knew I was never going to arrive.

‘I think we all need to do more of what makes us happy rather than what we think we should. And I’m realising that more and more.’

You need to prioritise your happiness and not do something because you’re expected to or happen to find yourself on that track. Jump off! Start over!