I was talking recently to a friend of mine and we discovered that we both happened to follow the blog of a somewhat mutual acquaintance. This blog author seems to have it all together...both online and in real life! We started talking about how it seems impossible for that many things in your life to go right. Perhaps she just doesn’t write/talk about the bad times? Because there must be some. There must be something she struggles with; something that is difficult for her. I find myself depressed almost immediately after reading her blog posts.
If you are reading this and you are a blogger, can we just make a pact right now? Can we agree to be REAL?! I don’t think people (like me) need any more pressure to be perfect. I beat myself up often enough and when I read things like this it makes me more upset. Why didn’t I make more Christmas crafts? Why can’t I find the perfect husband? Why do my dinners always burn? This is just a plea...and maybe it’s selfish. But I’m ready to hear from real ladies. I’m ready to hear that other people try to make a wreath and end up with glue gun burns and a weird, non-symmetrical round piece of junk that they are embarrassed to hang on their doors. I’m ready to hear that I’m not the only one who makes cupcakes that look like this now and then:
I promise to be real on this blog. And I don’t know if you care. But I do. I want you to know that I have days where I feel HUGE and none of my pants fit. You are not the only one. Sometimes it’s really good for me to remember that. I’m not the only one. Every now and then I do a dang good job on things, but more often than not things don’t go like I planned. And honestly, I’ve learned more from my mishaps and failures than I have from my successes.
The grass in my yard is up to my knees right now. I use a hammer to turn on my dryer because it’s broken and I had cereal for dinner last night. It’s called life. And it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.
After I wrote this post I saw that The Nester (whom I LOVE) recently addressed a similar topic! Check it:
http://www.thenester.com/2012/01/authenticity-blogging.html
1 sweet comments:
i found your blog today via blog hopping over from amy morgan's. (my husband's cousin's wife) thank you for writing this post! i have thought and talked about this a million times, and are attempting to live it in my posts. life isn't perfect, and neither are we...let's not try to act like we are!
great post!
michelle
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