PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS SLOWLY AND RT
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Tomorrow is #WorldMentalHealthDay so let’s be someone’s beacon of love, hope & light tonight 🙏❤️
If someone is falling behind in life, you don't have to remind them. Believe me, they already know. If someone is unhealthy, they know. If someone is struggling in their relationships, with money, with self-image, they know.
It's what consumes their thoughts each day. What you need to do for those who are struggling is not to reprimand, but to encourage. Tell them what's good about their lives, and show them the potential that you see. Love them where they are.
When we can't see clearly for ourselves, we need others to speak greatness over us. People don't need you to tell them what is wrong with their lives, they already know. They need you to reassure them they can still make it right.
Not sure where I saw this but it’s absolutely amazing & so so true.
Be someone’s beacon of light & hope tonight ❤️❤️
Be you. Do you. For you.❤️
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One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote words that still echo softly today:
“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”
Her life didn’t truly take shape until her forties. She had worked steadily — in provincial theatres, radio plays, and West End productions — yet often felt adrift, searching for a home within herself.
At 50, she accepted a television role she assumed would be small: Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. To her surprise, it carried her into living rooms around the world. That role, she later reflected, helped her embrace her own quirks. It healed something in her.
At 60, she began learning Italian — not for work, but so she could sing opera in its native tongue. She also discovered how to live alone without being lonely. Each night, she read poetry aloud, not for diction, but to quiet her soul.
At 70, she returned to Shakespeare’s stage, no longer burdened by the need to prove herself. She performed with stillness — and audiences felt that she was no longer acting, but simply being.
At 80, she took up watercolor painting. She painted flowers from her garden, old hats from her youth, faces she once glimpsed on the London Underground. Each painting was a memory made visible.
Now, at 95, she writes letters by hand. She bakes rye bread. She breathes deeply each morning. She cherishes laughter but no longer seeks to make anyone laugh. The quiet is her dearest companion.
And with that quiet came her message to us all:
Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.
Let these years be your treasure years.
You don’t need fame. You don’t need perfection.
You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.
With love and gentleness,
— Patricia Routledge
❤️ ‘Ma’ Twm yn ein bywydau ni dal i fod.’
Fe fydd teulu dyn ifanc o Wynedd yn cymryd rhan mewn digwyddiad i godi ymwybyddiaeth am atal hunanladdiad, union bedair blynedd i'r diwrnod ers ei farwolaeth.
Justin Rose getting a birdie through eight trees, four camera tents, two power lines and a burger stand because Keegan Bradley wouldn’t let him move 😂
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