Saturday, October 24, 2020

Dust if you must...




I live in clean surroundings but I don't spend all my time on cleaning everything to the brim, prim and proper. There is so much to life than keeping the house spotless and this applies to so many other things, like gossiping, spending time around negativity and stuff like that.


I would rather exercise, read a book, watch a movie, write, paint, sing, dance, learn an instrument, learn a new language, go hiking, biking, meditate, be with the nature, travel, be around positive people, play board games, the list is endless...


Here is one of my favorite poem by Rose Milligan on the same topic -



“Dust if you must but wouldn’t it be better
To paint a picture or write a letter,
Bake a cake or plant a seed.
Ponder the difference between want and need.
Dust if you must but there’s not much time,
With rivers to swim and mountains to climb!
Music to hear and books to read,
Friends to cherish and life to lead.
Dust if you must but the world’s out there
With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,
A flutter of snow, a shower of rain.
This day will not come around again.
Dust if you must but bear in mind,
Old age will come and it’s not kind.
And when you go and go you must, you, yourself, will make more dust.”

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Social Media


If we're not careful the online world can suck us in, change us, turn us into something that is false, and twist notions of what is really real.

We begin to second guess ourself and feel as though we're not good enough, young enough, pretty enough, wealthy enough, popular enough and the list goes on.

We watch others become crazy successful, witness people going on exotic romantic trips, we see them party hard.... Our head starts to spin and we finally stop and wonder...what the HELL am I doing? Is it just me going through problems?

Social media puts pressure on people to enjoy life... to enjoy and capture each moment so that they can boast about the parties that they really did not have fun at, partners that they don’t really get along with, the friends who do not care about them, the kids that they hardly have the time for...

I do not feel ashamed to admit that I felt jealous - negative at times to see all that fun, amazing relationships that people were having... even though I know that there is a high chance that it is much exaggerated, filtered, manicured. Nobody is going to share negative things obviously.


I am subscribed to very few people, who publish posts with quality content that I like. I no longer feel overwhelmed with information overload. I really don’t care to find out who is drinking what.