Have you ever had a book that was supposed to be comedic
that you thought would be riddled with jokes and laughter and it all turned out
to be a life lesson? Almost like when you tell your parent a rude joke and that
turns into a life lesson…although there were no rude jokes on my part. Well the
unexpected happened.
‘Is It Just Me’ –
Miranda Hart
Well I can safely admit, at 10:31pm as I’m currently writing
this blog post, It feels like I am still a school student hurrying to get my
homework finished at the last minute so I don’t face the wrath of the disappointed
teachers the next day. Oh it’s a glorious feeling that I am sitting here, Hotel
Chocolat treats keeping me company as I type merrily away about my latest book
adventure. SUCH FUN!
For those of you that don’t know me, I adore Miranda Hart!
For those of you that don’t know Miranda, she is a British comedian who takes
pleasure and earns great success from embracing the awkward embarrassing ‘someday-I’ll-look-back-on-this-and-laugh’
moments of life that in most cases normal
people would cringe and want the ground to swallow them up. My dear reader
chum, she laughs in the moment of it all and recreates this moments in her
recently finished sitcom!
To show you
why I love Miranda, here are some of my favourite quotes from her sitcom (this
is where we learn that perhaps our comedic values aren’t quite on par with each
other in which case dear chum, I apologise. I still find Miranda ‘totes hilaire’)
‘A savoury muffin?! Life is full of enough disappointments
Gary!’
‘The queen of all words, Moist, the king of
all words, Plinth, imagine a moist plinth…Bottom!’
‘Whenever I think of meals on wheels, I always
think of little Yorkshire puddings on roller skates.’
‘I don’t want to be friends with someone who
jogs, go and have a burger!’
‘Man: what do you love?
Miranda: Doughnuts
Man: What was your first love?
Miranda: Doughnuts
Man: What makes your heart skip?
Miranda: Doughnuts’
Anyway, continuing on...Whilst pondering on life’s issues from her current ‘I’m on
the right side of my forties self’ she has consistent chats with her then
eighteen year old self about the way things turn out. Pondering how she was, following
the trends and falling to peer pressure to fit in and not actually allowing
herself the opportunity to own up to her true dreams; relating to now when
those dreams that she once thought horrific to admit were now evolving right in
front of her eyes. MARVOLISSIMUSSOLINI!
With her true personality shining through, the infamous galloping,
SUCH FUN, embarrassing encounters on dates and the horrific notions of weddings
and hairdressers, she teaches all to embrace themselves with the admirable childish
charm of her own ‘Miranda land’. Did you ever tell your parents ‘when I get
older and everyone lives in my world everyone has to eat chocolate and there
will be no shouting or crying and there’ll be clouds of ice cream and candy
floss’….no? Just me? … Well, I hate to break it to you but its isn’t JUST me, in
Miranda land ‘Fun’ and ‘Exercise’ do not mix, galloping is required in all art
galleries because the hard wood floor is p.e.r.f.e.c.t. for such occasions and
most importantly; people accept themselves for who they are. In all your weird
and wonderful goodness, fat or skinny, funny or bright, or bright and funny, if
you get on well with crowds of people or not, through the comedic value of the
book Miranda teaches us all to accept ourselves as we are. No cover ups, just
to come as we are and not worry about what others are thinking.
‘’You just don’t care do you?’
I could have thought, ‘Help, I must look
like an idiot: I am on telly, doing sitting-down hand-and-shoulder dancing,
while this person is playing it cool and I most definitely am not.’
The eighteen year old me would have stopped
immediately, crushed by the peer pressure and pretended it was all ironic, but I
carried on. And with total confidence, I said ‘No. I really don’t.’’
Perhaps everybody
should stop caring what people think. Look how you want to look like, wear what
you think looks good on you, don’t not wear it because ‘Shannon from English’
said it was an ugly dress. It doesn’t matter what people think, as someone once
told me ‘those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.’ Be
yourself and be who you want to be. And maybe, just maybe, allow yourself to admit
what your dreams truly are because someday it might happen.
Dear 37 year
old Sophie, here are your top 5 dreams, what you REALLY want!
1-
To be a good mum (this includes owning all the
Disney DVD collection and watching them with your children!)
2-
To be happy
3-
To keep reading and dreaming
4-
To publish something (poetry or fiction)
5-
For everything to fall into place, by some
miracle!
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
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