It’s a bit like having multiple personalities, isn’t it?
I want to clear time to write and be creative, but I also want to hang out with friends and my gorgeous adult sons (because who knows how much longer they’ll be living at home?)
I don’t want to cook anymore, and yet this recipe for baked chocolate donuts looks sooo easy! Ooh, and this plum crumble!
I want to get out in the garden and plant stuff (because it will rain in Perth eventually. Won’t it??) but I’d rather sit on the bench seat and watch the magpies in the birdbath.
How do we ‘be’ all the versions of ourselves that we want? I don’t have the answers, other than choosing to do something and being content in that choice, knowing that next time we can do the other thing. Maybe.
The pull to be online and also offline is 100% relatable!! And also, maybe you just need something that is for you? Like a garden and chooks - Yes they take care and responsibility, but it’s by your choice rather than the needs of others like family?
I dunno, I’ve just felt similarly in the past, where all my output was for others care and satisfaction, and adding more of my own choosing actually made me happier, when logic said it shouldn’t…
This is how my brain reads that and interprets it, and we both know how different we are hahaha! I read that and think, that just means you’re so intelligent! You want to absorb things, you constantly want to be better or thinking of ways to learn, to grow! I think it’s sad when people don’t want to grow, they can’t look at them selves and wonder what is missing etc . You can do that, and just because you do, it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing!!!
It’s a bit like having multiple personalities, isn’t it?
I want to clear time to write and be creative, but I also want to hang out with friends and my gorgeous adult sons (because who knows how much longer they’ll be living at home?)
I don’t want to cook anymore, and yet this recipe for baked chocolate donuts looks sooo easy! Ooh, and this plum crumble!
I want to get out in the garden and plant stuff (because it will rain in Perth eventually. Won’t it??) but I’d rather sit on the bench seat and watch the magpies in the birdbath.
How do we ‘be’ all the versions of ourselves that we want? I don’t have the answers, other than choosing to do something and being content in that choice, knowing that next time we can do the other thing. Maybe.
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The pull to be online and also offline is 100% relatable!! And also, maybe you just need something that is for you? Like a garden and chooks - Yes they take care and responsibility, but it’s by your choice rather than the needs of others like family?
I dunno, I’ve just felt similarly in the past, where all my output was for others care and satisfaction, and adding more of my own choosing actually made me happier, when logic said it shouldn’t…
This is how my brain reads that and interprets it, and we both know how different we are hahaha! I read that and think, that just means you’re so intelligent! You want to absorb things, you constantly want to be better or thinking of ways to learn, to grow! I think it’s sad when people don’t want to grow, they can’t look at them selves and wonder what is missing etc . You can do that, and just because you do, it doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing!!!
Hi R, you are not alone in these ponderings. It’s rained for the whole long weekend and I’ve spent much of it online. Not proud of it.
I think it’s normal to seek and ponder other opinions and ideas - we were born to be social.
As corny as it sounds, sharing IS caring.
Tell that stupid little voice where to go!
Also, sometimes the silliest ideas are actually the best ones…pursue your podcast idea if you want to! xx