Just Blog!

Like most things, the longer I leave it, the more difficult it becomes. Blogging included. I'm out of the habit. I've had stuff going on. Emotions. Thoughts. Feelings. Questions. Not to mention overseas travel, family visits and a new nephew. All part of life, the full spectrum. Writing and blogging got put to one side. Nothing really wrong with that in essence, apart from the fact that I really do love to write. It serves many purposes for me. Blogging is a kind of journaling but less personal, less intimate. At least that has always been my intention. And yet, I don't think it hurts a blog to be a bit personal. It makes it interesting. We feel we are getting more when we get emotions too. Or is that just me?

I haven't blogged in 2 months. All my potential blog entries felt too personal. Too private to share. Maybe there is just some stuff I haven't quite come to terms with yet and that is why if all feels too intimate, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure. What I did realise today though is that I just need to DO IT! Write. Blog. Journal. Whatever form it takes is not really important, but the process is.

So it may be April 16th....hardly a popular day for resolutions of any kind as far as I know, but today I re-commit to writing. To Just Doing It. To stop thinking too much about it, to stop analysing every word that I  may want to share. To be brave and to be free. It is no co-incidence that I decided to log on to my blog today to remind myself what my last post actually was...and I found myself reading the very words that have been playing over in my mind today.....

You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.

 

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

 

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

 

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

 

is too small for you.

 

~ David Whyte ~