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| Dropping Da Love Bomb |
Last week I sent an e-mail to another blogger just to tell them how inspiring I found their work. I don't know them, don't want to be their friend or be on their blog I simply wanted to let them know that what they do inspires me and makes me happy.
I call this "dropping da love bomb" Its a really good habit to get into. If someone does something that you like, tell them. If a shop gives good service, a meal at a restaurant is particularly delicious or somebody performs a random act of kindness which impresses you then drop "Da love bomb" on their house.
As I came up with the concept of "da love bomb" there are few rules namely:
- Don't drop a love bomb in the hope of gaining something. That's being a creepy bum lick and is something entirely different.
- Don't drop a love bomb and expect the person to respond, That's not the point of a love bomb. You send your love off into the sky like a heart shaped balloon. Its not coming back. Bombs travel forward-they don't return.
- Don't be surprised if your love bomb is greeted with suspicion. Few people do anything nowadays without an agenda. Its why award ceremonies like the Pride of Britain are so popular. being selfless or acknowledging others is sadly not the norm.
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| Sending a Love Bomb into the air-Image by Bansky |
Why? because you do get something back. It feels ace to tell a fab photographer you saw their recent exhibition and it rocked, or the local green grocer that their carrots made your Christmas dinner, or a girl in the supermarket that her dress is amazing. It spreads a tiny amount of happiness onto the toast of life.
Sending love bombs doesn't replace having a healthy cynicism, a black sense of humour or enjoying a good bitch, no no no.You may only press the button on your Love Bombs once in a blue moon, you have to be in a very particular frame of mind to do it.
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| Press the button. Image by Banksy |
The idea is give praise where praise is due and if you are very lucky someone occasionally may send one your way. Perhaps when you are having the day from hell. You have laddered your tights, gone overdrawn, dented your car, its all gone to rat shit and you get a little facebook message,text or a card and suddenly every things groovy.
I realised this was the right blog to start the week with when I went to have a little look on youtube for a song with Lovebomb in the title. I found the campest song by a welsh glam rock group called Tigertailz. Totally mental straddling a pink "LoveBomb" perfection!
So my lovely readers lets fill the air with Love Bombs. To get you started I have got the nicest giveaway this week. In Grips We Trust is the cutest little etsy store which sells beautiful bobby pin boxes with pictures of old Hollywood stars on them. They come with hair grips contained and are my new favourite thing. I have the Bette Davies box (of course)
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| I adore my hair pin box |
Gina from In Grips We Trust has kindly donated a victory roll box to give to one of my lucky blog readers and entering couldn't be easier:
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| You could win this fab little box full of hair grips |
To enter
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The winner will be chosen via random number generator on Friday the 27th January 2012
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