The knots of life

I want to share with you how I feel, when I experience something that makes my day and the things that can unmake my day.

When I thought about this recently, it gave me the analogy to think that our day is a knot on a rope and when your feeling happy about the day the knot is done up and strong, but when your sad about the day the knots undone and then just a piece of floppy rope as you feel the day has just come apart.

Each day we start out with a piece of rope and depending on how the day goes it can either be knotted and feel tight, or it can be loose and floppy. You may have days where your rope can be tied up and untied multiple times as the day goes on. (I have days like that).

Some example of things that make my day;

• The beach

• Going to Pleasurewood hills (local theme park)

• Being with one of my friends

• Having a joke with mum

• Going out with my mum and sister for the day

Things that unmake my day are;

• When people are mean to me, I don’t understand why people do this.

• Getting my hopes up for something good and then it doesn’t happen. Like a change to a plan or hoping something goes the way I want it too and it doesn’t.

• If I get hit too hard in jujitsu, I like going but if I get hit too hard by my opponent it bothers me even if it was an accident.

I just want to say that the things that make and unmake my knot, maybe different to you. But that’s ok as we don’t have the same brain, but we may experience the same feelings.

Written by Harry aged 8