It Took Me 6 Years to Realise the True Secret Is Emotional Control

Here’s what it looks like

Eve Arnold
Practice in Public

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Photo by Олег Мороз on Unsplash

You know sometimes I’m convinced life is unnecessarily hard.

For context, I’ve just spent the last 20 minutes deciding whether to eat here or go elsewhere. I’d turned to my old trustee, the place I could always rely on for a good meal.

Turns out though, I’d forgotten that the breakfast menu doesn’t finish until 12am. Here I am, 11:10am, my stomach is eating itself. Now, I’ve debated all the eventualities in the last 30 minutes. I kid you not, I’ve had to stop myself from talking aloud to myself.

I’m in a pub after all.

So here I am debating. There are many factors that play into my thoughts, I’ll give you a brief download of the conversation that’s just gone on in my head.

I’m hungry — food is the obvious solution. I’d built myself up to a lovely wrap full of salad and good stuff. I’m reducing the indulgent eating you see. A wedding in four weeks and a review of hen-do photos have made me feel that I must get my house in order.

This means for the next 4 weeks I’m chilling it out.

It doesn't mean I’m calorie counting or anything like that, it just means, I’m just being what I call ‘sensible’. You see over recent…

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