Every year me and my dad go on a camping trip to the Lake District, we first started doing it when I got ill with stress and I was basically in a really bad place but I don’t think anyone truly understands how important this trip is to me, we’ve been doing it for 3/4 years now and I still love doing it. This place always seems to take my breath away and it always seems to calm me for some reason and I’m so thankful that I can experience places like this.
I absolutely adore this moment, as you’re walking along looking over the beach, you can see the waves crashing with children running in and out of the sea and people huddled around on blankets or on deck chairs. Everything just feels so fresh and new and looking out to the sea makes you realise that your problems are small and spending your life worrying about small things is pointless and unproductive. This is a big life lesson for me, I’m a sensitive and worry prone person but as soon as I accepted that I worry about things that don’t truly matter I was able to finally feel better about myself and the way I act with the various worries I have. What helps me with this is to escape from my everyday life and get out to somewhere I can feel free and somewhere I can relax without any worries. Obviously, I can’t visit the beach everyday but the thought of the sun and sand and happiness instantly calms me which is a miracle because not much calms me.
People have many different ways to escape and my best place is at the beach, it doesn’t matter where the beach is as long as it’s there. Ever since I was a child I have loved the beach, me and my family always used to go to the seaside whenever we could, the bits I remember loving is the food! Warm ring doughnuts, mint chocolate chip ice cream, slush puppies and fish and chips. These foods wouldn’t be particularly amazing if I was to have them at home daily but they’re foods I associate with being at the beach which makes them more special and it’s probably which I love them so much. So not only does the beach make me realise how small my problems actually are but it makes me think about my childhood and how brilliant and loving it was. I really hope you guys have that special place too because everyone deserves to have that place where they feel 100% comfortable and free in.
Alice Smith Photography 