Sometimes I'm serious,
Other times I'm silly and fun.
Sometimes I'm introverted and need to be alone,
Other times I'm outgoing and chatty.
Sometimes I want takeaway and chocolate,
Other times I'll happily spend all day baking.
Sometimes I want to sit and read,
Other times I want to hike to the top of a mountain or run until I'm exhausted.
Sometimes I'm impatient and quick-tempered,
Other times I have all the patience in the world.
Sometimes I want to sit my daughter in front if the TV,
Other times I'll play with her all day.
Sometimes I'm black and white and definite,
Other times I'm grey and a bit shruggy.
Sometimes I wear trackies and no makeup and don't care,
Other times I'm vain and want to look great.
Sometimes I love romance,
Other times I'm the least romantic person in the world.
Sometimes, around my family, I'm short,
Other times I'm seen as tall.
Sometimes the thought of writing makes me want to curl up in bed,
Other times it's my great passion and liberation.
Sometimes I want to blog it all, write and photograph it all, capture every moment,
Other times I want to keep bits for myself.
People change and evolve, and are often contradictions of themselves.
One of the big buzz words to come from the weekend's Aussie Bloggers Conference is 'authentic'. Keep it real, keep it genuine and authentic. To me, if a person is contradictory so too should a personal blog.
My mind is still reeling from the conference and I think over the next few weeks I'll be doing a lot of re-assessing. What I want from my blog, how I want it to be and what my limitations and boundaries are.
Evolving.
I have been blogging since 2007 and It took a while before I became comfortable "within my blog space" Now I just post when I feel like it, I write whatever I feel like writing. sometimes I can bang a post out in 30 seconds flat, othertimes it will take me days to get the words just right.
ReplyDeleteThe best advice I can give you is to be honest. To be honest to yourself mostly. But the most important thing is to have fun.
:) cheers Kim
Couldn't agree more. One of the worst things we can do to ourselves IRL and blogland is label ourselves and then feel limited to stay within those lines. Feel free to evolve!
ReplyDeleteLove this Megan.. There is no greater contradiction in my life than..... ME!!! My mum used to sing: "Emily, Emily quite contrary how does ur garden grow?" In part this was because I insisted on calling myself Mary...
ReplyDeleteLovely, as usual you speak for me too! The older I get the more I think of myself as a massive walking contradiction. I sometimes wonder if that makes me fickle but it's reality. I'm strong but not, happy but sad, organised & messy. I wonder how this comes across sometimes but hey, it's just the way things are. It is a wonder to me that someone understands this as you do! Xxxxx
ReplyDeleteyes my mind is still ticking along and thinking! I learnt so much :)
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Ah Megan, you are in my head. Totally. xx
ReplyDeleteI'm on my 7th (or 8th - not sure) blog now, and this is the first one I have made just for me. I just write what I feel like talking about. I am enjoying it immensely.
ReplyDeleteIt's great you got something to explore from the conference. :) *soooo envious and gunna be there 2012*
You are hands down one of my very favourite blogs to read. You are wonderful x
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY. I think everything the way you do. Everything.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing: I haven't felt a lot of inspiration to blog this week. Ha! I think I'm feeling more relaxed about it. If I feel like it, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't. Wasn't going to write a post last night, then suddenly around 11.45pm, I suddenly felt like writing. So I wrote it and went to bed late and posted it this morning.
I'm also writing that post about my friend I was talking to you about before lunch on Sat, and I'm keen to do a really good job of it - for her sake mostly. I'm taking my time. No rush.
xxx
Megan this seriously makes me not feel so strange. I can "evolve" a lot - and sometimes all in the one day!
ReplyDeleteI love this.
ReplyDeleteTo the power of a million.
So very well said.
It's funny how different we can be from one day to the next, even one moment to the next. But it's what makes us human and I know I like to read the contradictions of others people's lives so I feel better about my own contradictions!
ReplyDeleteOMG. Are you me?
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty much what I have been thinking too, I am as honest as I can be on my blog, and that's pretty honest. But like you I can be a walking contradiction sometimes... but I think that's OK, because we all are really, it's life!
ReplyDeleteI totally get that!
ReplyDeleteI feel like that too and so I let my blog be whatever it wants to be. There are times when I'm happy and gushy, and other times when I'm angry and vent. And I think that's OK, it's OK to be who we are...even when that's different all the time.
Great post. x
I am new to blogging and you girls have it right. I need to realise it is ok to be me!
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