Lots of bloggers like me folks online are waiting to be discovered, hit the big time, be rich, be applauded be given free maid service and car detailing for life.
Well, years have passed with this here blog…and I’m still waiting.
*fingernails tap tap tapping*
In fact, this week officially marked another one, a birthday for little ol’ me. Okay, perhaps it should be just “old me.”
While having a margarita with a couple of friends, they surprised me with “birthday speech!” “birthday speech!”
Just ask the Hubs about me and impromptu words (hint: when surprised by our rent-a-minister saying “you can now add your own vows” during our marriage in Belize, a stunned and speechless me let the Hubs go first. And what jewel did I say after? “Uh, can I ditto?”).
There’s a reason I take improv classes…
And what wise morsels did I, a more mature Wendy, dish out for my birthday well-wishers this week?
Errrrr, the older you get, the less you know!
and
I realize now how little control you have over pretty much everything in life!
Uplifting stuff, yes? That might explain the silent, disappointed gazes…
Years ago, I thought life was a learning curve, steep at first and then totally flattening out, and then you just are.
But again I was wrong.
I’d say now that life is more like a dig, for discovering things, mostly things closely related inside you, like yourself.
And everyone is doing it, whether you are hammering with a chisel on that rock that is you, or just sitting by a river that flows rapid and rough during storms or calm and peaceful on summer days. Excess rock gets removed to reveal more of your true form in every moment, in each breeze.
So, surprise! Maybe, if you’re lucky and live long enough, you are getting discovered.
By you.
And, birthday friends, now that I’ve had time and no tequila yet today, that is my birthday wisdom for you.
Come join the Let the dog in! gang on Facebook and Twitter!!
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Hey. Don’t sell yourself short! That post was exactly the right thing for me to read today.
Thank you!
I liked those little gems you through out on your birthday! But this post is better
And so true. Cheers!
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well, those gems sounded better with tequila, for sure! thanks!
You made me smile and nod “ain’t that the truth.” I told my husband I was an “old dog” and that “you can’t teach old dogs new tricks,” just last week.
I feel you. I do.
As for blogging, no expert here, but from what I have observed and been told by people who have become “big” bloggers, you have to get yourself out there and promote yourself like you are your biggest fan. No one discovers you any more. But what do I know, I have sorely neglected my blog and quit my freelancing gig for twitter since memory loss seems to allow only 140 character at a time predictably. Talk about old dog….sigh!
~Scout
Scout’s Honor/Heather Murphy-Raines´s last [type] ..On Marriage: Reason 234,676 Why I Love Him!
Well, Heather, if I have to promote myself, I’m in big trouble!! Oh well, blogging for free is still a (somewhat) healthy expression of myself…right?!