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"Happy Book"

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 TW: Abuse, bullying  Point of post: Hope, Healing • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • 🤍 • 'The happy book ' -S.W. Ok so when I was a child I used to have and make what I called "happy books" to counteract the fact my life was pretty difficult and painful in general and therefore my diaries became a treasure trove of heartbreak and hope.  I needed an alternative to my diaries and my reality. Something to balance it out and inspire me to keep going and fight whatever life throws at me. ☯️ I bought little books and I jotted down random thoughts and feelings, poetry, collages of pretty images and things from magazine, inspirational quotes, favourite lines of poems I've read, doodles and art, photography, silly things like a waterproof teabag I'd covered a tea bag in sellotape and laughed at the irony, did daft little things and I wrote my observations down about fellow humans, always generalised so nothing identifiable, and with the eagern...