Friday, 1 March 2013

Sharing Isn't Always Caring.


I spotted this funny e-card on Facebook ages ago and it tickled me pink. Oh OCD if only you were the cliché everyone believed you were ;). Also...I wrote a post about OCD months ago and I don't really want to share it. I then wrote a post about home schooling and I don't want to share that, either. I also have a bunch of photographs and stories to go with them but I don't want to share those, either. I'm just not sure what's okay or not to share on the Internet these days and quite frankly I don't want someone reading this blog, my Facebook or any other sites I use and feeling like they have some juicy gossip on me or those in my family. I feel myself closing up and closing in on myself, becoming more private than I've been in a long time. I just don't want to share a thing about my life; the good, the bad and the private. 

I'm not really sure where this leaves my blog. It's a teeny tiny blog anyway and that's how I like it. If I never write another post again then I'm not sure it would matter or have a huge effect on the world - I don't write to effect changes in the world and it's not my job to be held up as an example of modern day motherhood or how people should live their lives but I enjoy the writing, I enjoy telling stories from my point of view and I used to enjoy sharing, too. These days? Not so much. So how does one own a blog, keep writing, but also remain fenced off in areas they'd like to remain private? I'm trying to work that out. I'm also trying to work out if all these thoughts are due to hormonal changes in my body - big, strange and new changes I haven't gone through before - or if I'm simply growing up and realising that sharing isn't always caring. 

P.S: I don't have OCD...

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I love your blog. Maybe you can stream it in two parts-trusted viewers & public? Just a thought or is that impractical?.
I hear you. I've been in that place before, to an extent. I feel called to be a blogger, to open myself up to connect with other women. I had a private only blog for a year or two before I began my Goddess in Progress blog, and I started that blog after a strong spiritual prompting to do so. While I don't mine sharing the random particulars of my days, I'm becoming more and more hesitant about posting pictures of my son because he has his right to privacy too and he's too little to ask his permission. You know?

For all that, I hope you choose to continue blogging. I love reading about your day and feeling like "At least I'm not the only one!"
I have a lot of uncertainty about my blog, too. It has been a year since I wrote on it regularly. I had quite a lot of followers (though that's not to say they actually read it), and feel quite anxious about going back even though I want to. Writing is like that though: there is a season for it, where you have a lot of ideas and want to write a lot, and a dormancy phase.

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