Somewhere along the road I detoured into Social Network Place and into this thing called blogging. It's giving me new keys to more neighborhoods but I'm not sure if I can afford them.
What I love most about blogging and frankly writing in general are the stories. I consider myself a storyteller rather than a writer/blogger. The stories I've weaved on this very site have been both personal and cathartic, cleansing, endearing and sometimes just sweet and silly. This is the benefit. But there is a down side.
I'm having the hardest time keeping my blogging brain out of the very moments that make life meaningful. I'll start thinking about how I can turn just about anything into a blog post. I take pictures of all kinds of randomness as insurance that it may one day show up in this space. But then I sit to write it out and the private me intervenes and says to leave some things unpublished. So I do. It also sucks when I'm in the middle of a conversation and someone stops and says "you know, you should write about that." It takes me out of the present.
I'm learning that when you're favorite writer/blogger stops writing/blogging it's not just because they're busy it's because they're busy living.
So that's where I'm at lately. I have numerous updates. Many more stories to tell but I won't force them. They'll arrive in awesome fashion. Until then I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies ever.
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| "Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying" |
I hear this a lot. I usually blog at night when everyone is asleep and I can get my thoughts in order. Blogging for me is like being on a talk show or radio by myself I want to share on topics that I never get to have my voice on. Take your time and write you will know when the time is right.
ReplyDelete@kita
ReplyDeleteYou make an interesting point of being able to share topics that you may not be able to express elsewhere. Hmmm. I just had an Aha moment!
Good for you, but what the heck am I supposed to read everyday? :)
ReplyDeleteThat's a really good way to put it. Sometimes I feel really bad when I go about a week w/o posting anything new. But I have to live my life so that I actually have something to write about!
ReplyDelete@Courtney
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling this would only affect summer & holiday postings. Should be business as usual in the fall.
@Tiffany
ReplyDeleteYup I call this the Beyonce affect. LOL!
I think that's why my blogs are so hugely gapped with no relevance to the previous or last post(s) that I choose to publish sis. Truthfully, life has me in the present always. I've spent years and years writing and writing even before blogging, but I love living and then like you said, "in some random fashion" it ends up on the web. This weekend was a key epiphany for me as I DECIDED, to CHOOSE LIFE IN THE PRESENT, with my family, rather than sit in the house and blog or worse, soak about any woes and /or thoughts that consistently run through my mind... I said.. "f** it- it's time to go in the sun and b present with my family and my awesome Self at best!"... so glad I did.. but I feel u.. when I got home late last night I said to myself "i should truly blog about my weekend"...but naw... I'll let that happen when it happens....lol Great post sis... I'm with u always..
ReplyDelete@Selfless Damzel
ReplyDeleteYup, everything you said. LOL!!!
Great post! Sometimes it is easy to feel pressure to please your followers, but sometimes life just takes priority.
ReplyDelete@Thank, Q
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Thank you Q!!