My 50th Post on My Blog! And How it all Started!

Today I posted my 50th piece on my blog! Oh, my gosh,

I remember like it was yesterday . . .

My first thoughts when Michelle shared her blog and encouraged me start one of my own . . .

Me,?!? Write?!? Share my inner thoughts and feelings to, to hundreds of people I don’t even know?!?

I couldn’t do that . . . or could I??

It really was not like me to be scared . . .

Stepping out of my comfort zone was not usually a problem for me . .

Normally I like taking chances, living on the edge so to speak . . .

So why did this . . . this blog thing seem so scary to me?

Michelle took me by the hand and reassured me that I could write and share my blog with as few or as many people as I want .. .

Only people that know me, and no”strangers” would ever really see it . . .

Well heck! I could do that and so it started . . .

I started writing . . . writing about how I felt, how I saw things around me

But I always had a “private” rule . . .

I wanted my words to be positive, And I wanted people to see that we can . . . that we have to try and find the positive in situations

I wanted this because . . . I like to think I’m a “glass half full” kinda gal!

I wanted to inspire someone else to write, give back if you will, like Michelle did for me. But there was always this little voice in my head saying . . . “Why are you playing this so safe?” “Who are you going to inspire, if you only allow 2 or 3 people in to read . . . to read what you have to say?”

And slowly I started telling more people, people who I knew . . . about my blog . . . and I just kept writing. I was amazed how the ideas would come pouring out of my head onto the the paper. Almost ever day, I had something I wanted to share, to share out loud to the people I had let in.

Then one day, which turned into one week, and into a month . . . and nothing, I mean I couldn’t seem to get anything down, I had the thoughts . . but nothing! There was nothing to write!

My sister asked what happened? I miss my morning “blog” readings, I miss reading what you have to say!

And others noticed . . . noticed I was not writing . . . yet it was as if I didn’t know how to start again . . .

And then the “CHALLENGE”, join the SOL challenge . . . and I did . . . and not only did I start writing again . . . I became connected to so many people who just like me have things to say and share. . . and because we share we learn from one another and we can see how much we all have in common . . .

So today, I say, Happy 50th post to me!