Face-lifted reality
A colleague and a friend of mine had read a post from this blog that appeared on a Facebook link. He said: You make it sound like your life is super exciting and interesting, when really I know you just fill up fruit all day.
I thought it was such an honest comment and he is right of course. Writing has a tendency to face-lift reality. But at the same time, reality holds so much more than writing can ever capture.
Does it sound like I beautify my life? Maybe it does to some people. But isn’t blogging really about expressing a part of us that we don’t demonstrate to people in our daily lives? A peek through the key hole of our minds. So many people blog these days, it seems to be the modern kind of reality show, except now you can narrow your attention to the person or topic that you really are interested in. And you don’t need to watch bumping duvets.
Sometimes, I find it funny that I am one of these blogging people. I’ve always been pretty much an open book when it comes to thoughts and feelings, but that I’d write my story like this, online, would not have crossed my mind a couple of years ago. And the most crazy and sometimes a bit daunting thought is that I don’t know how the story continues. It writes it self somehow.
You judge if you find it exciting or not. I just fill up fruit.
Tillvaron är hur du välger att uppfatta den, det enda vi måste är att välga. Varje dag en möjlighet
Kram Pappa
Det är bland annat du som har lärt mig det, och det har varit lätt att välja det positiva i livet, med sådana stöttande föräldrar! Jag är otroligt tacksam!!
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I really like this post. I agree with everything that you have said, especially about writing being a keyhole to the mind. I don’t think it’s so much filling up fruit, as it is expressing life as we personally view it.
I don’t know that your friend “is right of course.” You are at such an exciting time in your life…not because you are living a rock-star lifestyle…jetting around…taking milk baths with rose petals and swimming in champagne.
You are (in an exciting time) because your life situation…from what I know of it…is filled with possibilities and friends…and your blog…whethere it’s about filling up fruit or a trip you just took…imparts that excitement…so it’s fun to read. I love this blog.
So here’s a guy in the US reading your blog…and sharing it from time-to-time. You do more than fill up fruit…maybe you’re just happier doing it than some other people would. That’s pretty exciting don’t you think?
Wow, thanks! Really! I do believe that life is what we make out of it and about how perceptive we are. I dig my life-style even though the rose petals and champagne seem to have arrived to someone else’s baths lately.
Each day of my life IS filled with possibilites and amazing people so how could I not be happy and grateful? The excitement might be hiding underneath the stacks of apples sometimes, but it always finds its way to the corner of my smile!
Thank you for reading and sharing!
great post. i love your positivity and yes, i think your story is about much more than what your friend may jokingly say. your story has impact.
I am a little overwhelmed by this support…thank you Nashville Ben and welcome to my pages!
You are all contributing, all making a great positive impact on my life and possibly my story!
wow! this is such a lovely blog! I came across it thru the WordPress tags, and i’m really enjoying your writing.
I do think blogging has a tendency to face-lift reality, but that’s what I love about it!
Life can so easily be taken for granted…all the little things, like the random comment we hear a 5 year old say in the street, or a song a live band plays… A blog is a place to record all these small yet wonderful things 🙂
Keep writing 🙂