Welcome back to the blog, and happy new year! Yay, it's officially 2025! As much as I love the comfort and joy the holidays bring, I look forward to January because it does feel like a true reset. And yes, I am that person who sees January as my month to refresh my life, especially after indulging a little too much during the holidays! Before I get into this post, I want you to check in with yourself and your mental health. There's a lot going on in the world right now, and you may be feeling a wide variety of emotions, so get in tune with what you're thinking. And I know it can be challenging, but remember to take good care of yourself and your mental health. If you've been feeling some anxiety and stress lately, I wrote a post all about ways to help combat feelings of anxiousness on the daily during winter.
For this blog post to start the new year, I wanted to write about what "romanticizing your life" means and looks like. I'm sure we've all heard our favorite influencer or wellness content creator say to romanticize your life, or you've seen it written on a blog post before. But what does this really mean? And what does it look like to romanticize your life?
It's taken me a reasonable amount of time to understand what this means and how I can romanticize my life daily. About three years ago, when I went through a lot of chronic anxiety in my life, I started learning about the idea of romanticizing your life. This means finding little moments to enjoy daily that are a natural part of our lives or the routines we create for ourselves. Oftentimes, and I'm sure you've felt this, we can get caught in the monotony of life. The waking up and getting ready for work, maybe putting on the same attire for work, eating breakfast, commuting, or even being a student in school and feeling like life can be overly consumed by school work. Now, romanticizing your life comes into play by encouraging you to look forward and be more present in your daily life. It can be as small as looking forward to your delicious morning cup of coffee and carving out time to sit down and enjoy that cup of coffee. Or even if you're in a rush, romanticizing your life can look like sipping on your morning coffee during your commute to work while enjoying your walk outside and trying to be as fully present. For me, a lot of the time, it is indulging, even for a few minutes, in my morning skincare and makeup routine. There is truly nothing that I love more than getting ready for the day, then getting dressed in a feel-good outfit, putting on my favorite accessories, and doing my beauty routine. And I romanticize getting ready every day by putting on a feel-good content creator's YouTube video in the background.
Do you see what I'm getting at? Romanticizing your life is really taking the monotonty of every day life -- making your coffee, getting ready, commuting to work, doing your makeup, getting lunch -- and finding a way to make it more enjoyable for yourself in a way that you feel joy and excitement for these mundane parts of life.
So, I encourage you to try to find parts of your everyday life that you can really romanticize. Because, trust me, it will make life so much more enjoyable! Maybe that can be, for example, on your morning walk to class, listening to your favorite music that gets you energized and excited for the day. Personally, I love having a yogurt bowl for breakfast most days, and I romanticize this part of my morning routine by making my breakfast while watching a comfort creator on YouTube. This honestly just makes this little part of my morning something that I look forward to every day. Or for your lunch break, try getting outside for a little bit and trying a new place to eat, or trying a new cafe. Also, another great way to romanticize life more is creating a nightime ritual for yourself, which is great to help you wind down. Spend time, even if it's 10 minutes, to do a nice skincare routine or to read a little bit of a book with a relaxing candle lit. Or, if you're into journaling, try writing in your journal with a new pen. And romanticizing your life doesn't have to break up your daily routine by any means. Believe me, I am such a creature of habit and LOVE my daily routines! But, romanticizing your life, or in other words, finding more joy in the little moments of life, can be so simple by just being more present in our everyday lives and trying new things. And oftentimes, a lot of romanticizing life is creating small rituals for yourself that bring you happiness daily.
Romanticizing your life looks different for everyone. We all have our own individual ways of making our lives more enjoyable for ourselves, but overall, this practice should make the mundane parts of life just not so mundane anymore!
I hope you have a beautiful week and remember to take it slow and be nice to yourself.
Xo,
Esha
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