I have had several posts sitting in my drafts since early spring. I let my frequent reluctance get the better of me and held off publishing. But I’d like to get back to publishing more raw content. Of course, this comes with hesitancy but I’m at a period in my life where writing honestly will help keep me feeling grounded and emotionally stable. Writing and sharing also gives me the opportunity to get outside my own head. As I touched on several years ago in my Secret Fear of Every Writer post, for me, writing from the heart comes easy, but not when it comes to publishing it to the world. As I described it then: With passion comes emotion. And with emotion comes vulnerability.
Sharing with social media can be so much easier and quicker – saying something with a photo versus sitting down and trying to eloquently express the jumble in my head. I love photography, and I feel I see the world in frames. While I’ve spent lots of time sharing my photography, I feel I need to get back to spending time sharing my writing. It doesn’t have to be some grand post or endless tirade, but simply purposeful, and with intent.
Sometimes I go on in life in a haze if I don’t allow myself the time to address and acknowledge things. Some days I feel like a zombie walking in a fog from my day to day existence, a slave to technology and other people. I think that is probably the worst part. I consume what others want me to consume, let them dictate my feelings and moods, let them tell me what I should want, and what I should value. I want my control back, but more importantly, I want my freedom back. I don’t want to be dictated to any longer.
As quick as it is to post a photo to Instagram, I want sharing my words to feel just as accessible and easy. And it can be – I do have this blog, after all. I can utilize my blog and this creative space as an Instagram for my words. They may not be perfect and may be met with criticism, but I’m not going to be worried about that. The idea is to be taken away from social media, back to my blog, and writing from within.