Ice Cream

So this week I've spent a lot of time in the library.This is a new thing for me.Usually if I have a reading week I would find every excuse not to read and keep myself busy doing something else.This week I decided it would be different!I made it my mission to come in everyday even if it meant sacrificing my social life.Normally I would put off coming in here until the very last minute.


I'm one of those people who tends to drag things out for ages.I never want to go home when I'm having a good time and I never want to end a conversation that I'm really enjoying.I always suck every last drop out of a carton of Ribena and make it last for as long as I can.I always wear shoes until they've fallen to pieces and admittedly sometimes I let the joke keep going until it gets way too old.But one thing I never do is keep an ice-cream for long enough that it melts.


You see,sometimes you can spend so long holding on to an ice-cream,enjoying it.You'll hold it 'til the cone goes all soggy and the runny white stuff runs down your hand.You spend ages concentrating on how you will save it,licking around the edges,savouring every last bit.But what good is holding on to a runny ice-cream?,it never tastes good when it's all melted.You'll enjoy it more the way it was at the start.


I suppose,what I'm getting at is that sometimes you spend so much time thinking about how you will save something or thinking about how badly you don't want something to end that you forget to enjoy what's happening around you.I know for me I tend to worry about stupid things and not focus on the big picture a lot of the time.


Don't treat life like an Ice-cream.Enjoy living in the now.Don't worry about holding on to things that are out of your control,the runny ice-cream will drip all it wants and give you sticky hands.Overthinking things gets you nowhere and you become like the soggy cone,all shrivelled up and good for nothing.