The good pricks.

1. The prick of tears.
So a few nights ago I had my last shift with the manager I feel the most close with at work and he's just an awesome guy. He's so funny and I always look forward to a shift when he's on. I've only known him for a year but in that time he's made me laugh and smile so much I lost count of the times I've said 'oh that guy!'. He's not usually a 'serious talk' guy unless you've been an ass and which you get the proper serious guy. But when he said goodbye to me it was the most sincere I've ever heard him and it made my eyes prick with tears and I just had this warm feeling inside like I found somewhere I was genuinely happy and I was bloody leaving it. I just wanna say thank you to him, in my own kinda way like this, y'know through my blog. Thanks for being such a great guy to me and making me feel welcome. I'm gonna miss ya buddy. It was that prick of tears that I love; the sharpness of pure emotion that really reflects how happiness can be painful. So happy to have someone uber cool in your life that when you leave them to be happy elsewhere it's gonna hurt. Thanks mother nature, you've truly outdone yourself on that one.

2. The prick of your ears.
When someone says your name but it's not you their talking to. When you hear the intro to your favourite song. When you hear a noise in the middle of the night and you become super sensitive to sound. When you hear something that you're damn sure you weren't supposed to hear. For me, the things that prick my ears up the most is the sound of a bell on a cat's collar, when someone mentions Harry Potter, when someone says the names Lauren, Jo, Pat, Claire, Lewis, Cameron or Peggy, the into to any of the songs on my top 25 most played on iTunes and the beginnings of irish and country music songs.


Out of every negative there comes a positive and in a life and world full of so much pessimism and negativity, you cannot get by without seeing the light.


Lauren x