Friday, April 20, 2012
Parents
The dedication and support that parents can give to help their children reach their goals can be a beautiful thing. It's so wonderful when you love someone so much that helping and seeing them reach their goals gives you almost as much joy as it does if you were the one to reach them yourself.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Too Many Drafts
I was looking at my blog and realized that I have a lot of unpublished blog entries. Just since my last post, I've written up 4 entries and not published them. There are quite a few before that. I find I'm doing it a lot because there are things I want to confide or talk to someone about but I feel I don't have anyone I can do that with. So instead I write blog entries but decide they are too personal or revealing about me and don't post them.
Of course, there are things it's better not to publish blog entries about, even if you believe your audience small. The frustrating thing is not having someone in "real life" you can feel free to talk to. Sometimes I worry my thoughts and feelings will offend someone or that people couldn't "handle" what's on my mind. Other times, unless someone knows me really well, I feel it would be too complicated to explain what and why I'm thinking a certain way. Or try to explain what and why I'm facing a problem.
It hasn't always been like this. It wasn't that long ago when I felt like I had some people in my life I considered "mothers". Not all were old enough to be my mother and none were related to me but they had more experience then me and I felt I could talk to them about most of my concerns/thoughts. For various reasons, they are no longer actively in my life. So while I feel I have friends that I enjoy spending time with and appreciate, there isn't really any person I feel I can go to for advice when facing some sort of difficulty or to share my more weightier thoughts with.
I don't mean for this to be a "pity me" post. I was looking over my blog and started to analyze why I had so many unpublished posts. I started to think about what need I was filling by typing them up but then not publishing them. Then I thought of how that need was filled in the past but why not now. So I'm sharing my analysis of my blog and part of my life...and I'm not sure why but I think I'll publish this time! =/
Of course, there are things it's better not to publish blog entries about, even if you believe your audience small. The frustrating thing is not having someone in "real life" you can feel free to talk to. Sometimes I worry my thoughts and feelings will offend someone or that people couldn't "handle" what's on my mind. Other times, unless someone knows me really well, I feel it would be too complicated to explain what and why I'm thinking a certain way. Or try to explain what and why I'm facing a problem.
It hasn't always been like this. It wasn't that long ago when I felt like I had some people in my life I considered "mothers". Not all were old enough to be my mother and none were related to me but they had more experience then me and I felt I could talk to them about most of my concerns/thoughts. For various reasons, they are no longer actively in my life. So while I feel I have friends that I enjoy spending time with and appreciate, there isn't really any person I feel I can go to for advice when facing some sort of difficulty or to share my more weightier thoughts with.
I don't mean for this to be a "pity me" post. I was looking over my blog and started to analyze why I had so many unpublished posts. I started to think about what need I was filling by typing them up but then not publishing them. Then I thought of how that need was filled in the past but why not now. So I'm sharing my analysis of my blog and part of my life...and I'm not sure why but I think I'll publish this time! =/
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