My sister started blogging again last week. She has blogged in the past but hasn't for several months, and I've been nagging her to start again. She is back living in India, and her writing is always riveting and poignant.
Yesterday, she wrote in part, "I've been struggling to write recently. It used to be so easy, because this place was so new and, even after so many months spent in Mumbai, so different that most days and habits and simple situations were a revelation. Now, it is just another home and I can no longer see with open eyes … it is much harder to be reflective and see differently what has become routine, mundane."
I agree with her completely. I made the decision to start blogging to think more, be more reflective about my everyday life, and to write more. However, I have realized that it is not easy to see the extraordinary in the ordinary…or to make the ordinary into the extraordinary. Perhaps I should focus more on the simple and everyday and not feel like it needs to be remarkable or surprising or unusual in any particular way.
Two things - Em and I have a theory that she blogs less because she talks to me more regularly. That given, I could cause her to blog more, but she probably wouldn't appreciate it. Second, I agree with your final thought - don't require your posts to be entirely groundbreaking or anything, but write not only for others but also for your own edification! The only problem with that mantra is that taken to the logical extreme, it devolves into everyone tweeting about the hot dog they had for lunch. :)
ReplyDeleteJust found your blog - well titled. :)