When I renamed the blog – I put a lot of thought into the name.
I wanted something that would grow with us, as our lives grew and so did our family.
I wanted the name to fit in sync with with our shop.
Unlimited.
unrestricted. unconfined. boundless. limitless. infinite. vast.
When I named the blog, I felt like it was perfect.
Ultimately, it is perfect.
It fits.
So where are my reservations?
Myself.
Last night I laid in bed trying to find sleep, my mind wandering and I started thinking about blogging and about journaling.
I love to write. When I take notes and lists, they are more effective when I hand write them.
There is a difference between journaling and blogging, there will always be things that I feel like shouldn’t be written on the blog – this big, open, internet world is a scary place to put everything – once it’s out there – you can’t take it back.
There will always be things just for the journal – finances, lovers quarrels, & more private things that I don’t want to put out on the internet.
But at the same time, there are a lot of things that don’t fit into those categories that I still don’t write about.
There are at lot of things that I hold back writing.
I’m not a fan of conflict, so I suppose I worry about the possibility of writing something that will result in controversy or that someone might think the post is directed at them even though it isn’t.
At the same time, I feel like these are just excuses – this is my space on the internet, if someone doesn’t like it, they don’t have to come back to this domain name & that’s OK.
Even though I know that it’s my space, my right – it’s a matter of getting past whatever it is that is holding me back, keeping me from writing whats on my heart.
This morning, I saw this post called Write Like It’s a Journal, Not a Blog.
And when I read it I knew that I’m not alone.
I’m not the only one that struggles with sharing their heart on the blog like they want to, and it made a part of me not feel alone in these thoughts.
So, it’s my goal to start – writing what’s on my heart and learn to have a take it or leave it.
What’s your thoughts? Do you struggle with being writing exactly whats on your heart? What holds you back? What pushes you forward?
You know I love this! It is your space and you need to use it as that and nothing less. We need to write with our hearts in mind, not someone else’s.
Thanks so much for writing this. It’s really reassuring to know that there’s someone else that really gets what I was saying.
Well said Kristina {And Ashley}.
I find it so weird that some people just know how another is feeling and like a domino, this happens.
“This”, meaning a domino effect of writing a post about truth and feelings and honesty.
This is why I love to read your blog. You are sincere and I feel you wear your heart on your sleeve.
Thank you for writing this friend!
Kim
Love that quote with the picture! I agree that you should blog with your heart and hold nothing back!
I LOVE reading blogs that people write from their heart, i usually think that they are much more interesting! BUT I do hate when people give their opinion and say “THIS IS THE WAY IT IS AND IF YOU THINK OTHER WISE YOU’RE A LIAR OR AN IDIOT!” makes me think that person is a TOTAL idiot for using their opinion as fact! -.-
It’s hard. There are so many things that are on my mental checklist of things to write about that when I try to attempt to… the words fail me, or I write part of a post and then lose my nerve, or I get stuck in analysis paralysis because I’m worried how my audience might react to what I want to say based on what I assume their opinions and experiences to be based on things that I’ve seen them write.
Plus the fact that writing about things that are difficult just tends to take a lot more time and thought, and I tend to have limited hours in the day to which I can devote to blogging.