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I love connection, family, children, friends, health, nature, sunshine and music. I love overcoming difficult times and gaining strength I didn't know I had. I love growing and knowing I have the ability to change my journey.
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I love when I'm staring at the stars on a clear night and everything just seems so nuisance compared to the complexity of whatever this all is. I love when I'm with friends and family and I just feel this deep connection and happiness that's shared between us all. I love the feeling just after I've pushed myself to my limit and get a burst of euphoria after a workout. I love having a mind boggling chat with friends. I love when there's a friendly and sweet interaction with a stranger. I love laughing and not being able to stop. I love an adventure and not knowing what's next.
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I love family, friends and nature. I love the idea of being my own hero.
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I love learning, growing, feeling grateful and happy. I love it when I can appreciate the beautiful things in the world and the wonderful people I meet. I'm also grateful that I have learned to love and be happy in my own company - it gives me an amazing sense of freedom and a feeling that I can achieve anything I want!
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I love the feeling of the sun on my face on a summers morning.
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I love the fact of even being here to experience life itself. I've been manically depressed for many years, but there's always that something keeping me going. I've been given the chance to experience it all, and I may as well let it play out. That's why I love it. To be able to feel love. I'm still yet to be where I want to be, so it's hard to say I love it all, but the fact I'm not there leaves everything up for grabs. I love the idea that it could go anywhere from here. I couldn't have got this far without my love for music, food and a special woman.
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I love getting to experience different stages with the ones you love and being able to travel and see different parts of the world, cultures and nature.
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I love being able to see the people I love every day.
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I love going to the pub with the girls.
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I love life because I have a roof over my head and I have a job so I can always buy a pint.
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I love the smaller things that perhaps sometimes blend too much into day-to-day life, like a hot sunny day after it's been gloomy or seeing a cat in the window or being lucky enough to be chosen and getting a pet. Some of the bigger ones for me are live music and festivals. I love concerts and festivals, and having things to look forward to. I love the idea of more music to discover equals more people to meet. I love the warmth and feeling of ecstasy and escape I get from being surrounded by friends and strangers in a random field or club.
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I love the pure joy of how music can make you feel. I love knowing that you haven't lived all your best days yet. I love knowing that you haven't met everyone you're going to love and who will love you yet. I love the kindness of strangers and the genuine smiles from babies. I love learning from everybody's experiences and understanding them on a deeper level. I love genuinely realising how lucky we are to be alive and understanding that the odds of us being born truly are crazy! I love having the freedom to take trips. I love the fact that we live on a purposeful planet in nature. I love the feeling you get when someone understands you. I love unconditional love from people you love too. I love the happiness of making someone laugh. I love the feeling you get when you know you've helped someone.
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I love having a picnic in the sun. I love sharing a bottle of wine on a balcony, people watching and playing cards. I love sleepy morning sex.
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I love life because I'm learning to accept the fact that I am different. I love that I can better myself. I love life because I am proof that things really do get better.
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I love saying and doing positive things for people. I love making someone's day brighter.
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I love people who make me giggle!
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I love sharing quality time with people I admire and care for. I love having the privilege to do whatever I want, whenever I want. I love a cold glass of white wine after a shit day.
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I love life because I can connect with other people when I least expect it. I love helping other people out with information or practical solutions.
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I love the universe.
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I love playing sport.
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I love, love!
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I love spending time with people I love and building a community because, we really are just on a floating rock so we might as well enjoy it and be nice to people and it's important we appreciate each other and have fun. I also love life because the sun is out today.
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I love making memories with friends and family. I love having plans to look forward to and different goals to aim to achieve to keep me motivated.
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I love life because opportunities are endless, you can do whatever you want to do, and see whatever you want to see. I love life when I am able to reflect, be grateful and remember how far I have come. I love life for the little things and the mundane.
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I love life because of the small moments, morning coffee, time with family and friends, and a job that I love. I love being able to wake up every day and have the privilege to build the best version of myself.
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I love life because I feel so lucky to be able to pursue the things I'm interested in or passionate about, professionally or creatively, which feels like such a privilege so many people don't have in other places or in other times. I love my personal freedom every day; it is such a luxury.
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I love being around my closest friends and my piano. I love spending time in the sun.
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I love seeing my children happy and doing well in life.
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I love red wine.
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I love beer.
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I love the next beer with the lads.
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I love writing Stewart G on restaurant collection machines.
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I love the little people inside my bollocks that will replace my position on this earth.
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I love the challenges, my loved ones and my future.
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I love Tiger Lounge.
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I love steppers boppers with the boys.
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I love women.
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I love community.
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I love creating everlasting memories with my beautiful family and friends.
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I love to look at the blue sky.
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I love going on walks and actively looking for frogs.
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I love getting to experience the beauty of the world.
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I love that normally the sky is grey but sometimes it is blue and then everything is amazing in comparison.
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I love having the opportunity to travel round the world.
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I love being able to live the life that Andrew wanted for me and to carry him always on my adventures.
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I love family, friends, money, summer and terrorising men.
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I love making memories and having different experiences with my friends and family.
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I love being able to constantly reinvent myself.
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I love music, it accommodates for any mood you're in, it's relatable, and boost serotonin when you need it the most!
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I love people loving people, nature giving us mountains with green grass, sunshine, small streams and butterflies.
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I love the strangers you meet.
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I love the small, overlooked moments, the little glimmers in ordinary days.
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I love…in the words of Seals and Crofts, summer breezeeeeeee.
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I love the beauty and joy in the little things and the connections you build along the way.
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I love when I overcome tough periods in my life with the people closest to me.
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I love that my family keeps getting bigger and I find more love to give. Loving lets me love life.
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I love family and friends, and the strong bond I have with them, by supporting, but also giggling through life. I love that sense of life you get on a crisp, quiet morning in spring, watching the sunrise.
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I love the people around me and having the freedom to be creative and do what I love.
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I love being married to my best friend! Life is exciting if you give it the opportunity.
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I love the constant pursuit of self-improvement in every aspect of life: health, knowledge, wealth, relationships, character. I love enjoying the time we have, as time cannot be regained. I love being in the present, but at the same time, being excited for what is to come.
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I love painful belly laughs. I love the thought of there being people you haven't met yet but will meet and love.
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I love life because of the people in it, especially family. It's not just big, dramatic moments; it's the small stuff, random conversations, inside jokes, sitting together doing nothing, and then realising those are the moments you remember later. Life feels most worth it when you're sharing it, building memories and knowing those people are part of your story.
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I love British Summer Time.
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I love being able to do really hard things and coming out the other end knowing mentally I got through it.
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I love those days with friends where the plan is to go somewhere and do nothing, like going to a field, a beach or something. I would take those days over any other days.
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I love drunk cigarettes.
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I love the goosebumps I get from too little sleep, live music, and a few too many beers during summer festivals.
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I love when you have a moment to sit and focus on the here and now.
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I love my best friends who have been with me since college. I love my family who have always supported and loved me no matter what. I love making coffee in the morning. I love the sound of rain on windows or in a tent. I love getting ready with my best friends for a night out, drinking and listening to music. I love music in general. I love being able to sing well. I love the feeling of having a crush or falling for someone. I love sex. I love light evenings in the summer with your friends. I love going to the theatre. I love going to bed knowing you have a lie-in the next morning, particularly better if it's in bed with a partner. I love eating good food, especially Italian.
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I love the mystery of tomorrow and looking forward to the joys of the next day.
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I love my fantastic family and friends around me. I love planning holidays for more adventures and travel. I love being able to keep my brothers memory alive in our head and hearts.
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I love music, curiosity, and togetherness.
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I love living 10 minutes away from the beach.
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I love the beauty of being gifted with some extra special children that I couldn't be prouder of.
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I love that I am surrounded by a supportive family, class mates and no one who takes life too seriously. I love my little one and wife to be.
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I love that my life is a gift and I get to experience the beauty of the highs and the lows every single day.
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I love being able share life experiences and successes with other people.
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I love my beautiful daughter Athena.
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I love being able to boogie with my buddies.
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I love beer.
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I love the laughs, the random moments, and the memories you don't even realise you're making at the time. I love just being around the people I love and feeling connected.
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I love it when you meet a stranger by chance who you immediately click with in some way and feel a sense of home for the brief initial encounter. I love having a laugh with someone in the shop queue. I love that you can and will meet and love someone in the future, but you just haven't crossed paths with that person yet.
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I love life because when I hit rock bottom and felt there was no way of life getting better, the people who really loved me helped me climb back up and higher than before. I love that I am always comforted in knowing that nothing will ever be as bad as my rock bottom.
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I love life because I show my children every day that no matter how hard it gets or the days seem, you can get through it and you can move on. I love showing my family how far you can come after being so low that you can achieve so much after that, and that it's so possible to see the light after being in so much darkness. I love life because there's so much left to see that I never saw before, and I'm glad I'm here to see it now. It's just a bad day, not a bad life.
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I love knowing that all we leave behind, are our stories, so all that really matters is chasing the moments and memories and the times that really make me feel something, where you feel electrically alive in one way or another.
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I love seeing my mates smashing everything they are doing.
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I love the people in my life. I think it's easy to be consumed by all the bad people in the world, but I love it when I have encounters with nice people. I speak to a lot of strangers and try to speak the compliments I think because you never know how it might make someone's day, and the conversations it can spark. So many people live really interesting lives, and I just love hearing about them.
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I love the small things. If you look out for them every day, they give you a sense of wonder, which makes life endlessly exciting and interesting. Yesterday, I were out running, I saw a black adder; this morning I saw a red squirrel. Both were enough to keep me loving life for the whole day. But for me, it's really the people and the unexpected stories they hold that really make me love life.
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I love the small things that make you smile to yourself, like a squirrel crossing your path on the way to work or strangers asking you how your days going.
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I love freedom, friends and being able to do anything.
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I love being around my parents and spending as much time with them as possible.
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I love that every day is a new day to try something new, meet someone new or learn something new! It's an amazing gift, and you never know when it runs out, so just live each day as if it is your last!
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I love experiencing new experiences.
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I love that every day is a new adventure. I love approaching life with open arms and an open heart.
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I love beer, music, friends, sunrises and sunsets.
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I love live music with mates.
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I love that life is filled with so many different characters, on different journeys, making all of our experiences unique.
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I love that I get to experience meaningful connections with people in the world.
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I love understanding that nothing is ever that serious and we are so lucky to even be here, it is fun when spent with loved ones but also so rewarding doing life alone.
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I love work, fiancé, family and friends. My life is a luxury and I'm blessed.
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I love family and friends and the support system I have around me. I love the ability to improve and have opportunities to prove to yourself what you are capable of, be it a fitness challenge or a promotion at work. I love the possibilities to see the world and experience different cultures.
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I love knowing I have my full life ahead of me where I can do what I want. I love my hockey.
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I love that I have a great circle of friends. I love that I recently started a new job, I can see progression in. I love that I've learned how to balance my social life while still having the freedom to be spontaneous, try new things and meet new people! I love that I've created a safe space at home and enjoy my me time, also grateful I get to live with my best friends. I love that I have the ability to take care of myself and nurture my health. I live in a city that I love, where even small interactions with strangers can make my day. I love having a supportive, healthy relationship with my family!
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I love fresh trims and chest day.
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I love having the best friends, family and staying healthy.
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I love the way beer makes me feel.
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I love that every day is a new opportunity to experience the mystery.
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I love drinking Budweiser, supporting Blackburn Rovers and understanding that no one's perfect.
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I love my dad, Colin, who, after a heart attack at 60 years old, moved to Ireland and is now living his best life, and goes walking every day and kayaking in the sea, which has helped his mental health so much.
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I love my dogs and how they somehow think I'm the best thing that's ever happened every single time they see me.
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I love the challenge of ups and downs like a roller coaster, but with a wonderful family and amazing friends, I try to live my best life every day, life is beautiful, but very precious to me.
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I love the feeling of the sun on my skin, especially after some shit weather. I love the moment of adrenaline before going on stage. I love smiling at someone in public, and they smile back. I love the hug after seeing someone you haven't seen in ages. I love it when an animal chooses to come up to you. I love cups of tea. I love watching something you've been waiting for ages to see, and it's even better than you hoped. I love an ice-cold pint in the sun.
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I love spending time with loved ones and pushing myself academically and physically.
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I love to see the world, to smell the smells and see the flowers grow. I love chasing sunsets and dipping my toes in the sea.
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I love making sure loved ones grow older with me and we enjoy every moment, with no regrets.
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I love living for what I like to do and spending time with those I love.
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I love life with family, friends, Barney the dog and enough gin to tolerate all three.
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I love the satisfaction of realising your dreams.
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I love my life because I love myself. I've started working on myself because I realised if I don't love myself and how I am, then I'm not going to enjoy life, and people I care about aren't going to enjoy being around me. So I started learning to love myself for all my positives and negatives, fears and ambitions.
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I love the unforgettable moments that make it worth it, I love being fully present in them, spending time with the people you love and knowing that you are creating stories you will tell one day. Life is tough and throws so many curveballs, but those moments always find a way back, and for me, that's enough to love life, stick it out because better days always come.
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I love going out with my girls in the sun.
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I love emotion. I love all of it. I'm excited by sadness and motivated by heartache. I'm pushed by pain and chaos within turmoil, which makes me feel as though my brain is being electrified. I love the challenge that my own emotions set me; the self-questioning, the reckoning and the gratitude of feeling so in touch. Importantly, I love how emotions remind me of the simplistic nature of myself. How they humble me and remind me I am not a complex creature. I cry when something has hurt me. I get angry when I am confused. Sometimes I shut down if I am misunderstood - I am human. I love people watching. I love taking myself out of my own head and watching these emotions unfold on other subjects. The emotions are simplified by distance. I'm not sure why watching two aunties gossip with raw emotion as though the world can't see them brings me so much happiness - but it does - it's pure love. I think the best thing to do if you are struggling or overwhelmed with your own life is to throw yourself into other people's lives.
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I love beer, drugs, women, friends and family - in no particular order.
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I love getting a this and that on my lunch break with my mates.
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I love my incredible family and friends. I love the moments that can easily be taken for granted or missed. I love a morning coffee in bed. I love a smile when you hold the door for someone. I love a beautiful walk with stunning views from your doorstep. I love the first signs of spring. I love a glass of wine with the sun on your face. There are a million tiny reasons to make you smile, and I hope everyone can see some of them.
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I love waking up in a morning and making my bed, I love feeling every emotion there is to feel, I love having absolutely no idea what I am doing with my life, I love helping people, I love organising warehouses, I love wearing stupid clothes, I love changing myself, I love making videos and taking pictures and focusing on every little detail that most would forget. I love welcoming people into my life as though they have always been, I love that my house has always been a safe space for everyone over the years and I love that my mum and dad welcome everyone in as their own. I love my family, I love my friends, I love today, I loved yesterday and I'll love tomorrow, I love life even when I don't love it, oh and beer.
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I love the very definition of 'love': an intense feeling of deep affection and a great interest or pleasure in something. I love everything that love has to offer, the ups and the downs. It's all about love, loving friends, family, partners and even strangers. I love helping people and seeing others progress together. I love meeting new people and having a positive impact on their lives. I love exploring, travelling, and all things adventurous. I love freedom and the idea of doing things without a set plan. I love getting stuck in and putting myself out of my comfort zone. I love learning and trying new things. I love succeeding and the sense of achievement. I love setting and reaching goals and targets. I love being competitive and demonstrating my skillsets. I love struggling, getting things wrong and progressing through failure. I love understanding that there's so much beauty in imperfections. I love the transition from a negative environment to a positive one. I love knowing that if I've recovered from a bad place or situation once before, I'll always be able to reflect on it and carry that forward to smash down challenging situations in the future. I love, love, but I also love struggle and pain, there's a balance in everything, and it's important to me to understand that no matter how hard things get there's always light at the other side. I love knowing that sometimes to improve you can't always go through things alone, and that's why I love offering a helping hand and I love stressing the importance of not being scared to ask for the helping hand either. I love the world in which we get to enjoy, I love humanity, I love you.

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