Day Three: Hypocritical Planned Spontinaity

I am a hypocrite. "How?" I hear you all scream. Well.

I often state how I love meeting new people! But I am terrified of new people, constantly concerned that I will give off a bad 'first impression' and I will from then on be regarded with anything from disgust to pity. But I like having a new collection of friends, to span who I know and who I can learn from and, after the initial 'meet' after a few times when I am comfortable, I then love having this new person in my life.

Another way in which I am hypocritical brings us to the main subject of this blog. I would like to say I enjoy trying new things, and doing new things but in fact I am not a massive fan of change. Change scares me and quite often I wont do anything. However, this is fear of change is changing as I am trying to grasp hold of new experiances and be more spontanious!

Today I spontaniously went to Bournemouth with my friends Dan and Nina. Ok, maybe not too spontaniously. It was planned, but it still had a sense of randomness to it. Dan is currently a student at Bournemouth Univeristy and he had some resits. What would have cost him £80+ on the train only cost him £30 in petrol and I offered to drive him down; not only to save my friend money but to do something different. Mondays blog mentioned how I waste so much time and just don't really do as much as I could so I relished the opputunity to just do something different.

A spontanious picture of Nina and Me in Bournemouth.
Well ok, it was preceeded by 'Lets take a picture for my Blog' so it wasn't that spontanious

So Nina and Myself spent most the Day, from 8:30 till 4:30, in Bournemouth, chilling, chatting, taking photos, and exploring the town while Dan, the poor sod, spent the day in exams. It was thoroughly enjoyable, for Me and Nina atleast, and it shows just what a bit of change can do.

How many times do I wake up, spend a day doing nothing, and go to bed. Or if I have work, I will go to work, then come home, and go to bed. When I do do something it is usuall the Pub, which in Solihull is normally the choice of Feildhouse or Spoons. It's nice to do something completly different, even if it's a drive to a rainy seaside, and it shows that this sort of change, either spontanious or planned, can be a good, possibly even great thing. Not only did it get me out the house, not only did I do a favour for a friend, not only did I get to take photographs and thus be a little bit creative, but I feel it broadened a friendship aswell. So many good and positive things from one simple change to everyday.

Lets try and do something different.

Atleast Once a week!

Shaun Kellett
Clockwork Musings