I think I broke up with Facebook in 2011. I still see it occasionally, but it just doesn’t hold the charm it once did. 2011 is the year that I finally stopped overlooking all the belching and farting Facebook does. Overlooking all the ugly jokes and making fun of other people. Overlooking all the “I’m better than you, and my life is much more exciting, too.” Oh, Facebook still has some fine points. It’s creative and the life of the party, but in the end, it wasn’t the best fit for me. I’m sure Facebook isn’t wasting anytime mourning the fact that I’m not around as much, and I’m sort of glad. That gave me a chance to look back at this good, old faithful blog. Waiting patiently for me to write something. Anything.
At my last coaching session, I expressed fear that I couldn’t come back to blog writing. That I wouldn’t do it “right.”
“What if I don’t have anything to write about, Coach?”
“What did you write about in the past?”
“I wrote about memories of childhood springtimes, when my grandfather would mow over new tulip shoots from bulbs that my grandmother had planted the fall before.”
“Are those posts ‘right’”?
“Yes. At the time I’m writing them, they feel like throwaway posts. Like I’m just typing for the sake of typing, but when I look back on the post six months later, or a year later, I realize that the post is saying something much deeper to me. It’s like I don’t realize it at the time.”
So the Coach admitted that he doesn’t know if I can get back in the groove, or if I can do it “right.” He can only ask me to commit to Just. Doing. It. And I did. I committed that I would try to write five days a week, and at least three days a week. It’s a big commitment for me, because I’m afraid I don’t have anything left to write.
Well, what have you been up to the past years? Fill us in!
Marie, I’ve been up to everything and nothing.
I guess I DO have some stuff to catch up on, huh? Are you not blog writing at all anymore?
Haven’t in a long time! Just occasional Facebooking!
I always enjoyed your posts….