How very inspirational and uplifting. I have fallen in love, kidding! just kidding about falling in love. Although, I did fall upon this great creative blog. Mildly Creative is informative, honest, and full of great things to say about people, life and the world in which we live.
This blog was put in front of me by the universe or God or some thing that wanted me to read and learn from Ken Robert. He has a lot of good words in his vocabulary and he’s smarter than a cucumber! Don’t get me wrong I like vegetables too! Okay, I am not going to say any more to dig the hole any deeper than it is.
So, here’s what I am saying. Go over there and visit Ken at Mildly Creative he has a few good words for you too.
Ahem, reading Mildly Creative is why I began writing the post you are reading now.
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There are always two sides to everything. Good/bad, happy/sad, flowers/weeds you get the idea.
While reading the same thing as you I will definitely see the other side of what you won’t see. I seem to pick up on things that the average person won’t. My problem or asset is that I read between the lines and analyze things way too much to the extreme, in everything. I know it might not be healthy and it might be the best thing. Once I started analyzing things my brain does it more and more and I can’t stop. Once I get set on an opinion I stay there and believe what I believe there is no changing my mind. Unless, of course, if God knocks on the door and tells me otherwise.
Am I authentic enough to continue to write and post here? Considering it is my blog if I stop writing then this blog dies, as you can see from some spurts of quiet days of crickets chirping and tumbleweeds rolling through fields. Those times are when I have gotten sidetracked, a lot.
Everything I write is real as real’s going to get. Not everything I write is well put together. Either you like it or you don’t. It’s about as jumbled inside my head as it is in writing. If you can follow along you deserve a prize ribbon!
I write to get a release from the stuff in my head. There are a lot of things here that mean something to me in my life at the time of writing them. One day there will be a barrage of people leaving messages wanting to talk to me because of my life experience and about stuff I write and have written in the past. Or maybe I will hear the crickets and coyotes howling at the moon.
Funny thing is some times I can hardly keep up to me. When I have a thought I go with it with no regrets. In posts I either vent or have a point to get across. It might be something you need to learn or I may be writing it out so I can learn something about myself.
One thing I have always known about myself is that I tend to let other people’s opinions matter over the top too much above my own when it comes to my life and what I am about. What the hell to do they know what is good for me and what does it matter if they think it’s unhealthy for me to be on the computer writing and reading? It might be unhealthy for them or maybe they believe it to be unhealthy!!! That right there is them shoving their beliefs and opinions upon my shoulders.
I am just sick and tired of living my life for others. One day I will live for me, my beliefs and my ideas will be worth hearing about. Waiting for the optimal time to come around might not be the smartest thing but it’s what I would like to do, for now. Until I decide what is best for me.
After reading what Ken wrote about: “5 Reasons You Might as Well Be Authentic” I realized how difficult life feels because I am not being true to myself. In my daily life there is not a lot of real authenticity when talking with other people in my life. I can’t look a person in the eye and have good honest conversation because I am lying about who I am. They don’t know me for who I am because I have been raised and was taught my whole life to be ashamed of who I am, don’t draw attention to myself, never tell people what you really think and hide from the world because you are meaningless and mean nothing to nobody!
If I could find a balance in my life where I could be true to myself and show people what I am made of life would be great! Right now the only thing/person standing in my way is me.
Ken was so right when he wrote about the five reasons. There is truth in all five reasons but this one really hit me:
5. Overtime, You’ll Get Better at Being You
With your new found energy and endurance, you’ll be more apt to stay the course. If you stay the course, keep your focus, and do your work you’ll find yourself getting better. Your writing will improve. Your drawings will be more imaginative. Your business will grow. There’ll be more of you in your work than there’s ever been and you will be somehow bigger, bolder, smarter, happier.
…practice being myself each and every day.
He is correct and I have always believed this to be true. There was a time when I was “bigger, bolder, smarter, happier”. So many realizations and wow! thoughts that give me a chance to put things back into perspective.
My wish for others in my life is that they too, one day, might realize, read, learn and come to terms with their own lives and know they too can be who they were meant to be no matter what other people think, or perceive them to be.
I have to end this here because I would go on forever and this post might turn into a book. Although, there might have been more to write about touching on this topic maybe one day I will write more or go deeper into the shelf of thoughts and ideas.
Perspective is a wonderful thing. Thank you Ken Robert at Mildly Creative for giving me something really great to think about and learn from also for putting a bug in my eye, so to speak, and ants in my fingers. You really got me thinking and writing!
I feel satisfied and exhausted from releasing all this into words. I think this is a great blog post. Hope you as a reader can learn something about yourself today. Pass the bug around. Write something positive and thought provoking and whomever reads your blog will feel compelled to open up and write about their life or learn from your experience.
Thank you for reading One Of Many Me’s.
