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I get a few goose bumps every time someone subscribes to my blog. The ‘slightly terrified’ kind of goose bumps, because I’m thinking, okay – what do I have to offer this person? Won’t I just bore them to sleep as I they peruse my pages? Oh, crap!
Don’t get me wrong, a good feeling accompanies the goose-bumps, too. A feeling of ‘oh, good!’ Thing is, I’ve read all styles of blogs, some really superb, others very interesting and some so eye-opening. Each tells a unique story, each teaches me something new, and most I’ve read were certainly worth each minute in one way or another. Some are actually daunting in there superb-ness! All so different from mine.
So I worry a little. But only a little. That’s probably only because being a perfectionist, I always worry about producing a good piece of work – more than good really. 70% in a school exam was never good enough for me, it sent me home wistful. I didn’t want to PASS, I wanted to excel. Of course after a playful semester sometimes what I honestly, desperately prayed for was to ‘just pass.’ Still what I really wanted was to excel, but hey, you don’t reap chicken after sowing beans.
Even in my blogging, which is a no-pressure, fun thing I still worry about producing a good piece of work! In reading around, I’ve realised it’s not just me. Good to know I have some company.
Amidst the ‘what do I have to offer this subscriber’ I stop fretting. ‘Cause I know variety is the spice of life, there’s nothing to prove, and ‘… Above all things to thine own self be true …’ And then I go on happily blogging away, and thinking ‘you’re a silly girl some days, y’know.’
My blog is my home. And like one wise woman said in a movie I loved, ‘a home is a place for self-expression not a place for making good impressions.’ Ha. Of course it would be great to make a good impression while ‘self-expressing.’ Plus, don’t some people in certain lines of work take their clients/potential clients home just so they/their wives can impress them (the clients) with their hosting, rich wine, et cetera so they can be brought around to sign a good deal or two? There are people who take people to their homes just for the purpose of impressing them with something or other, and it’s perfectly normal. And okay.
Anyway, enough with the rambling, my confession is made and I’m off to write a new post. Happy blogging, friends.
I think like that too about my blog and school… Though I don’t get goosebumps I really want to please my readers
just like I want to please my parents and family when I excel… I don’t think it’s much wrong or stressing… it’s just human affections ^^
Haha.. the goose-bumps aren’t literal … I don’t really get them, just a a goose-bumpy feeling. Lol. And yes, I agree with you, it’s only human to feel that way – to want to turn out something good. Good to see you again, Daph.
You have LOTS of company my friend! and you have nothing to worry about.. ! your pages are great! c
Thank you Cecilia, and of course company is always good
Agree, Kat, I think none of us “want” to disappoint, really, but trust me, as a subscriber, I subscribe to what I like and I’m sure you do, too. So just know you are liked and we are enjoying you! Proof: we would unsubscribe – as has happened to me but only one person so far and I think I know who it was but it matters not. New people happen along who like what we say… see you soon
Your blog has style…an indeed variety is the spice of life…so here is yet another subscriber:) Besides…I am always interested in observing perfectionists and Type A personalities…for being a Type B…I am naturally attracted to the opposite…although one day I believe the Type B will go extinct…LOL
Thank you for getting on board, Tincup. I’ve just got back from your pages reading ‘Feeling Numb’… 23 and 28 struck a chord, and I was really amused at 24 and 25. LOL. And Type A personality? Hmm, where have I seen that categorisation before? And what else is said about these Type A people of whom, apparently, I’m one? Google to the rescue
Nah, you Type B folks aren’t going anywhere, that would take all the spice out of things, no? lol.
You have plenty of Type B in your blood…otherwise you wouldn’t have time to write or think like a dreamer…look forward to reading your future posts.
Oh yeah, I agree with you on the Type B thing. I get myself confused sometimes with the range of things I’m interested in, or how I react to certain things. I had looked up the characterisations earlier and kept thinking about what percentage of me fell where, and wondering if it would be much easier to be more fixed in one group than to have one foot here and the other there. ‘… think like a dreamer…’ hmm…