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Let me start out by saying that I am writing this post to me more than anyone else, so bear with me as I talk to myself and I hope you can be encouraged as well!
If you have been blogging for any amount of time you can find out quickly how amazing some bloggers are. They have the most amazing design, the most amazing photos, the greatest content, thousands upon thousands of followers and if you look too hard and long enough you return to your own blog only to feel sorry for it's pitiful space.
I am no different.
I have taken a very long break from visiting other blogs because the comparison of it all makes me feel so very uncool, unsuccessful, so lack luster, so uninspired.
I have taken a very long break from visiting other blogs because the comparison of it all makes me feel so very uncool, unsuccessful, so lack luster, so uninspired.
This is what comparing does.
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We look at someone who is successful and we think their life is charmed or perfect or if it isn't, that it always works to their famous benefit somehow?
In blogging and in life.
This quote might say it all....
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I have realize recently, again, that I am super hard on myself. I run my mind a million miles an hour about how I might have offended someone, about how I might have come on a little too strong or a little too weird with so and so and run that "one sentence" over and over in my head.
It's exhausting!
I have realized also that I can only be me.
Sometimes I don't do the right things or say them the right way, I am human. And these people I am so worried about who might get mad at me for saying the wrong things or not want to be my friend because I am too this or not enough that, well... oh well.
Sometimes I don't do the right things or say them the right way, I am human. And these people I am so worried about who might get mad at me for saying the wrong things or not want to be my friend because I am too this or not enough that, well... oh well.
I guess they are not going to be in my life.
As long as I am not intentionally trying to be a jerk,
why oh why do I let these things reside in my mind like a plauge destroying myself, my heart?
I let these thoughts eat away at me until I am paralyzed.
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And again, this trickles back into the blogging world as well.
I can't be anyone else but myself.
Blogging is supposed to be our little space of the internet where we do what we can
to share our thoughts or inspiration, a little piece of us.
Not blog hop realizing how behind our blog is, constantly checking our stats and being excited with new traffic and like a failure when the stats slow down or when people stop following our blog
or we get a nasty comment.
We have to be conscious about what we are allowing to reside in our minds.
The verse that says
take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ and to not allow vain imaginations
has really been so real to me lately.
Especially the vain imaginations part, because I allow myself to think and create all kinds of crazy things up in my head that are most likely far from the truth.
Half the time the things we think others are thinking about us, they are not. And the other half of the time we are thinking that some other person is super human or perfect, they aren't they are just like us and are playing to their strengths.
What are our strengths?
What are we good at?
What do we love?
What are we passionate about?
What inspires us and makes us want to share?
Focus on truth, focus on the beauty you have to offer to the world, to your blog audience, to your friends and family.
It is something no one else can offer, so do it well and with fullness
and lets not let comparison steal what we have already been given!
7 beautiful responses:
So much! haha, i love the first quote.
This is so good to read! I feel I do the same things that you talk about. I compare myself, and I get ideas in my head that are far from what a person really thinks about me. It's frustrating sometimes. It's hard to not to allow your mind to wonder in any direction. When times like these happen; I say a quick little prayer for God's help. Thanks for the encouragement!
Out of the fifty blog posts I read this morning, this is the one that rings the most true to my heart. I've heard that first quote before, but it couldnt be more real than it is now. I've been dealing with these particular issues in my marriage--viewing mine through the "low" places, petty arguments, misunderstandings and to be honest, occasional loneliness. Thanks for speaking out the feelings and struggles that we all face, but usually torment us internally. There is such freedom in sharing & letting it OUT. I pray you are encouraged as much as you have encouraged me today. Xoxo Erica
Beautiful post! Thanks so much for sharing. I'm sure it resonates with everyone on some level.
If you want to feel better about your blog, visit mine! But really, you have a fabulously inspiring blog & I love to read it! Beautiful post; beautiful blog (:
Oh, comparison! I think we all do it. It can be such a mental trap. You are very wise to realize it! Love, Bethany
Thanks for this post! I was literally tearing up as I read it because it is like you took some of the thoughts and feelings I have been having and put them in a blog post! Thanks for this!
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