The mindless rambling of yet another Sophie

Today I felt very inspired to write. I don't know why but ideas kept creeping up on me throughout the day. As I haven't done so in a while I thought I would share one of the poems I wrote today. Enjoy!

Today I did something. Today I posted to my instagram. The last time I posted was on the 3rd of July 2015. Why haven't I posted since then? I couldn't. I wouldn't. The last posts, the last two, had been of my dog. They had been of Fallon. They were taken before I went away on holiday, before I went on a placement, before it happened. Before she passed. A part of me never wanted to post again. To keep it stuck in time as if I could keep some part of the past still alive. It also felt as if nothing was good enough to post after her. No pretty selfie, no pretty cake or pretty landscape could compare to what I had last posted. Nothing could surpass how pretty she was. I posted today. It was spur of the moment, a thing during my procrastination, but I knew I needed to change it. It would have to happen eventually. So what did I post? A picture of her again. This time it was different though. This time I knew the picture that I chose was one of the last of her I had...

The other day I was speaking to a friend who said 'I read a 600 page novel yesterday because I didn't want to revise.'  My response was 'Ooh what was it?', our other friend responded 'why would you do that?' I find it rare these days to have the time to just sit and pour over a book for an entire day. Other parts of life get in the way and they are unavoidable such as working or studying. Our friend's reaction isn't a bad one though. Some people don't like books. Some people do like books but have never found one that they have NEEDED to read. I like reading books and I have to say that it is hit and miss with me. I have experienced that need to read, to devour a story, but the majority of books I have read haven't done that. That doesn't mean they were bad books! A lot of them I thought were amazing in many ways but they didn't trap me in their covers.  Some books grab you and wont let you go until you've read them cover to cover...