This from the Guardian is excellent.
Laura Evans developed anxiety after a break up. She’d moved to London to be with her partner and then had to move back to Cornwall. She knew that was where she needed to be and then she decided to be a mermaid.
So she’s now a mermaid who regularly washes up in St Ives.
This has made me so fizzy. I don’t need to be a mermaid, but if you do, then be a mermaid. Or a unicorn, a fuzzy bear, a dragon. Make yourself happy and if you can make other people happy while you do that’s just marvellous.