Today I found these silly photos that were taken about three years ago. I am amazed at
how I haven't aged at all since then, still looking the same ;)
Anyway, these photos prove that I have always been crazy, bonkers, coo-coo, a few loose screws,
a goof, in other words... a LOCA!
And guess what?
I love it!
Crazies have more fun, even more than blonds do.
We get to get away with almost everything. All we got to do is blame everything on our insanity ;)
But I've noticed that lately, my insanity level has decreased considerably, mmm, not good.
I need to spice it up and bring it up a few notches so I can go back to who I was
when I started Second Life.
Back then, Second Life was so much easy and more fun. No worries in the world.
I would log in, explore, and meet amazing and interesting people (sometimes nuts like myself)
and then go write about them in the blog. Or I would just find a great sim and spend a day or two
exploring it, enjoying it to the fullest, and taking pictures along the way, even of the smallest thing
that had captured my attention so I could later share them with you, my readers. Those were the good
days when I didn't feel the pressure of meeting deadlines or worrying about getting behind my work.
Yes, now sadly when I refer to my blog I often catch myself saying, "I have a lot of work to do",
"I need to get back to work", or "I am getting behind my work." What is up with that, really?
Where has all the fun gone?
Has my blog become that, work?
Lately, that is how it is feeling to me, like a job that I must do, like it or not.
Where are the fun days when I enjoyed every bit of what I was doing when I felt that passion
for creating a post out of fun and pure enjoyment? When I didn't feel the pressure and didn't have to
follow guidelines set by others for my own blog? When I was writing freely and being 100% genuine
to myself and to you in what I wanted my blog to be. Now, my blog has made such a huge turn in a
direction I never expected.
The other night I couldn't sleep so I decided to see what was bothering me so much about my blog
to the point of questioning what I was doing. I stayed up till 5am reading post after post, starting from
the very first article I ever posted and I was enjoying it so much the way it was before that I kept smiling.
They were all goofy posts, about everything that would tickle my heart, and yet many times they were
really about nothing in particular but they were fun, oh so much fun, and filled me with so much joy.
Now, I feel so uptight all the time, so pressured, and limited to what I want to do in my own blog.
This can't be right! The intention was to have an enjoyable experience with it with no obligations
and no pressures or rules. Just be me and do my blog as I wish, being silly sometimes,
posting about a frog if I wish. Talk about real-life issues and do inspirational posts like I used to do in
my Pico Blog. Touch difficult subjects and try to find ways to help out. In other words, I do not want a
SL fashion blog, there are already thousands of them out there, one less won't be missed.
What I have in mind for my blog is something totally different. I want to give it a more human touch.
Touch subjects that affect us all, show you sims even if it takes me a couple of days to write the post,
and not feel the pressure of all the work that lies on my shoulders. I simply
want to truly enjoy what I do.
Of course, credits are very important in a blog. It is an acknowledgment to all our great designers.
I would not dare leave them out. Credits of what I am wearing/using for a post will continue
to appear at the bottom of each post with Slurls to the stores. Sometimes, I will focus on a new release,
group gift, designer, freebie, or a store. But when I feature one of these I do not want it to be so
commercial and cold. That is how I felt in many of my fashion posts lately.
One of my closest friends told me not too long ago that now when he visits my blog he knows what to
expect. It has become so predictable. He told me he knows that he will find simply an advertisement
fashion post. The fun posts, goofy and heartfelt ones seemed to have vanished from the blog. I was
surprised to see that not only was I feeling that way, but the people that love me and know me well feel
the same way. Other friends have also brought to my attention that I have been so hard on myself these
last few months. I have become my worse critic and that is not good for me. I had not realized it but it's
true, all the pressures I have been feeling lately in trying to beat deadlines and please the people I
collaborate with have made me lose focus of what is really important to me.
My blog is not intended to impress anyone or to get me popularity or compete with anyone else.
That is not what's important to me. My blog is to provide my beautiful readers posts that I had fun
creating and may have a meaning and a purpose. Also, posts of places or things that have tickled my
heart and I am eager to share with you, for example from showing you an expensive gown from one
of our best SL designers to a free dress that I may find in the marketplace
Can't wait to get healthy again and start writing for you and taking photos for you.
The difference, once I return, will be that the blog will be touching real-life subjects. It will give focus
to both lives because we can't forget that real life is more important no matter what, so I will use my
blog as a tool to touch REAL lives like I used to do in my Pico Blog.
Please pray for me to get well soon, I will appreciate it so much.
And never forget that I love you all tons.
Forever Yours,
~ Lori Novo ~
❤
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