I left my bed

Oh my life, I barely know what I am going to be doing in the next 7 hours, let alone 7 years, so I think this will be a hard one to write about. Considering this writing challenge prompts are quite personal, i may switch to a different one, purely because I don't want to bore you with what I'm going to be doing within 7 years but would rather try and inspire people to be doing what THEY want in 7 years... But I guess that's a different post. 7 years ago today, I had just left college, dreaming of being a famous singer and having no effective immediate plans to put that in place but figured it would "just happen". I was in my infamous years of drinking mostly vodka, and partying purely for the love of dancing. The Confuser, the band founded by my college friends and myself were still gigging a little and life was grand and very not adult. Looking back, 17 was the most fun age for me I think. It was the age full of promise and I still had so much time ahead...

I am not claiming to be an expert at relationships, if anything, I am far from it. Here are some of the things I've learnt in my current relationship. A little back story here; My other half and myself have known each other for a very long time, friends for 9 years to be precise. We have been close on and off throughout these years and I have always thought he was a wonderful person. Relatively fresh into a relationship we had to up and move to an entirely new city and live together - Scary huh!? And this did not come without it's faults. Getting to know a friend as a partner in a new surrounding is NO easy feat but here are some of the things I've learnt in the past year and a half. A) Expectation leads to disappointment I am no stranger for finding fault in relationships on the whole and I'm never that far away from feeling unhappy about something or other. Then not that long ago, I thought to myself, am I expecting just my boyfriend to make me happy? You cant r...