and this is why i blog
Back in the days before I was a blogger, I used to think that just maybe it was a bit of a time waster. Of course over the last few months my tune has changed. And especially over the last week as I have had the Nielsen family (of nie nie dialogues) so much on my mind and in my prayers.
When I saw that she and her husband had been in the tragic plane accident, my heart dropped. Her four little children, so close in age to my own. The panic and anxiety that must have occurred in the moments before. When I was on the phone with Jim that day and told him about it, my voice caught. And really I don’t cry easily. (unless you count those “priceless” commercials and hearing my children sing and tender moments on the office. the office? okay, so maybe I am a little more emotional than I give myself credit for.)
It is an interesting experience to have such compassion and tender feelings; kind conversation with people you have never met. To me, it makes the world feel closer and better. . . like most people are good and kind hearted. And despite our political, cultural and religious differences we can be good and kind toward one another, and even feel a closeness with each other.
I know some struggle with the fact that blogs are sort of a glossy representation of what goes on in everyone’s life. Is blogging too Jane Cleaver-ish? Not really to me. I KNOW that everyone has bad days. I know everyone fights with their husband sometimes and is impatient with their children. I don’t mind reading about it, but I don’t feel like I have to in order to feel genuineness from someone. It seems like for the last several decades society has been so focused on exposing the ugly realities of life, that we’ve forgotten there are good realities too. So like nie nie, my blog is to document for my children and family the happy realities in my life. Because all though life has its ups and downs, overall it is so so good.
When I saw that she and her husband had been in the tragic plane accident, my heart dropped. Her four little children, so close in age to my own. The panic and anxiety that must have occurred in the moments before. When I was on the phone with Jim that day and told him about it, my voice caught. And really I don’t cry easily. (unless you count those “priceless” commercials and hearing my children sing and tender moments on the office. the office? okay, so maybe I am a little more emotional than I give myself credit for.)
It is an interesting experience to have such compassion and tender feelings; kind conversation with people you have never met. To me, it makes the world feel closer and better. . . like most people are good and kind hearted. And despite our political, cultural and religious differences we can be good and kind toward one another, and even feel a closeness with each other.
I know some struggle with the fact that blogs are sort of a glossy representation of what goes on in everyone’s life. Is blogging too Jane Cleaver-ish? Not really to me. I KNOW that everyone has bad days. I know everyone fights with their husband sometimes and is impatient with their children. I don’t mind reading about it, but I don’t feel like I have to in order to feel genuineness from someone. It seems like for the last several decades society has been so focused on exposing the ugly realities of life, that we’ve forgotten there are good realities too. So like nie nie, my blog is to document for my children and family the happy realities in my life. Because all though life has its ups and downs, overall it is so so good.
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