I've realised over the past few days my love of anonymously living in such a densely populated city. It has allowed me to have the break from reality that I needed and has shown me that I can be whatever and whoever I want to be because I am not trying to please anybody else but myself. I'm an introvert. I'm not a huge fan of small talk. I love in-depth conversations. I really enjoy being by myself as opposed to being around people I'm not comfortable with. I only have a very small amount of people who I am comfortable around and it is those people who I am open to sharing my life with. I pretend to be someone I'm not in order for certain people to like me and I shouldn't have to be. In fact I hate myself when I am pretending to be someone else. I'm a complete and utter nerd and I need to learn to love that. I love lounging around in comfy clothes and watching endless episodes of Sherlock or Once Upon a Time. I could read and read and read for hours on end. I am me. 

I am the kind of person who, after reading a quote, can appreciate it but never usually sticks to it. However, over the past couple of days I have found a couple of quotes (on Pinterest, as always) that have struck something inside of me and I feel are extremely relatable. Quotes that at any other time wouldn't have made an impact on me but right now, have. 

I don't know exactly what it was that caused me to read these quotes and write them down, but something did. Something inside my head, or maybe my heart (I'm not quite sure which one, they are both pretty powerful right now), told me that I needed to write them down, stick them up in my house and read them whenever I walk past them. They've taught me that I need to live in the moment, don't take what I have for granted, be myself and live my life how I want to live it not how someone else wants me to live it because this is my life and you only get one chance. 

- Emma xo