Romanticising Reality: How to Live Like You’re in a Novel

Here’s a secret: life feels different when you decide to see it like a story.

Romanticising your reality isn’t about ignoring the hard parts — it’s about noticing the softness in between. It’s choosing to believe that even the quietest days deserve a soundtrack, that the way light hits your coffee can be as moving as a well-written sentence.

We live so much of our lives waiting for plot twists — for something grand, cinematic, extraordinary. But maybe romance isn’t waiting to find us. Maybe it’s waiting for us to notice it.

It’s in the way your friend remembers your favorite order. The way the air smells before it rains. The way you look at someone and think, you’re a chapter I didn’t see coming.

When we read, we fall in love with characters who feel deeply — who see beauty, risk heartbreak, and still believe in something magical. Romanticising your life is just that: giving yourself permission to feel, to dream, to make the ordinary sacred.

So go for that walk like you’re in the middle of a Jane Austen montage. Write letters you’ll never send. Make tea like it’s an act of devotion. You’re the main character — and this, right now, is your scene.