The past couple of weeks has been spent in introspection and journaling. Over the past three years, I have shifted the focus from caring for a husband and family to discovering what I want and finding my voice as a single woman. Its not an impossible task, just a big one. But a necessary step in working through the past so I can move confidently into the future.
To that end, I have cleaned up a bunch of blog posts and deleted a lot of others. Reading through some of my old posts, I saw where I was:
*tired/grouchy/resentful
*way too busy
*focused on everyone but myself
*handling more than my fair share
*not giving myself grace
Its was hard to read the truth of some of the posts and I didn't want to leave that as a legacy for my kids someday. I don't want them to feel like all of that hard work and effort didn't mean something to me - it absolutely did. But reading them now brought me some perspective and I found I could easily let them go. So I went from around 2300 to just over 1800 posts. I did the same with my other blog, Its Just Me, Gina. That's the beauty of an on-line journal, I guess.
All that to say - I will be back to blogging next week, after I do a little more blog spring cleaning. Have a great rest of your week!
Gina
3 comments:
Wow you have been busy cleaning up both blogs!
That's a lot of work, but I get it. I bet it feels good to let some of that go...
I didn’t realize that you still kept your other blog going. I’m going to have to pop in and have a look at that. I tend to leave the angst-filled posts. Deleting them, in my mind, would be akin to ripping out journal pages when I was going through a difficult time. Life is tough. You have to take it warts and all. I do respect your opinion, though.
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