Yesterday I was reminded of how far I’ve come with loving myself
I’m part of the dirty thirty 2022 challenge on Facebook. So yesterday morning whilst sipping my morning coffee I pondered the daily prompt
It was open – write about whatever you want
If I wasn’t writing poetry daily, this would have been cause for stymied overthinking – a vortex I know I can get lost in
So instead I simply asked “what words today?”
Out they came, I slapped them down in a post on Facebook and walked out the door for my morning ride…
My attention wanders like a wild thing
Hungry
It sticks its nose under garbage can lids
Social media
And consumes the kind of minutia that makes its belly ache
I want to say to it
“come away from the rot”
But it is not a house trained dog
It is a wild thing
An hour or so later, while cooling down from my ride, I check Facebook to see what other poets are writing
Which is when I discovered that instead of posting to the private group – I had just slapped my poem down on my main page and in front of all my peers – most of whom do not read poetry, nor comprehend what the hell I was doing
Even when I was posting poetry to Facebook last year, I had it on a separate page and only followers of that page could see it. Placing personal thoughts on Facebook is tantamount to verbal vomit – particularly at 5am when people are just not ready for that
What I realised though, was that apart from a grin at what some people were thinking, it really didn’t bother me. I also found it a bit humorous that my poem was about attention, when I clearly wasn’t paying any when I made my post
Sigh – delete and repost poem where it should be – move on
This is the sort of thing that would have paralysed me years ago and now it doesn’t even bother me
Well done and thankyou again athousandbitsofpaper.com
Blogging is an important part of personal growth. Blogging, and particularly blogging everyday helps a person with self confidence – we find out what we want to say and how to say it. Perhaps because it is heartfelt poetry it is even more illuminating
Other benefits of blogging (for the doubtful)
Clarity
Courage
Authenticity
Acceptance
Vulnerability
Integrity
Alignment
Communication
Sagacity
Summary
there’s probably other things, the list is by no means finite
And when we grow these things in ourselves, we automatically encourage them in others
Just blog
Wild indeed
