Because I have so much fun painting, making things, blogging and connecting with you all, it felt like it should be a hobby (you know, if it's work it can't be fun...). Which to me it meant that I should only spend time with this when everything else is done.
Another part of the equation is that I easily feel guilty when I spend "too much" time on the computer, just because we hear all the time about the pitfalls of begin online too much. Frankly, I love what I learn online, connecting with you, being inspired. So often, computer time is considered wasted time, but then I remembered that when I had an office job, I often had to spend eight or ten hours a day on the computer and that was considered just fine.
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| Ablaze 5 x 7 inch acrylic painting Available in my Etsy Shop here. |
This morning, I spent three hours on the computer, listing several items on eBay and on Etsy, being on Facebook and in the blog world (oh, the inspiration I get from what you all post!!), writing some e-mails and now doing this blog post. All the while my inner voice was repeating the list of the things I "should really be" doing. But I just kept on telling it that I was doing exactly what I need to be doing and that I'll get to the other stuff as well.
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| I Can See You 5 x 7 inch acrylic painting Available in my Etsy Shop here. |
My work is done in my studio and online. It is pure fun for me and I am done, done, done feeling guilty about it!
With much love and gratitude for you, my virtual community,
❧ Silke
I know exactly what you mean, Silke. Introverts LOVE the internet! It's like it was created just to suit our personalities, LOL!
ReplyDeleteWhat a delicious morning you have had… and not only introverts love this means of communication but also those who love silence or the quiet… and I totally understand that creating can be meditative.
ReplyDeleteAnd it goes without saying that you would naturally WANT to spend lots of time with your blogging friends because we are the BEST, am I right? HA!
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way, silke. Blogging especially has been a gift that keeps on giving.
ReplyDeleteI too 'evaluate' the worthiness of how I spend my time and I get critical when I am holed up home alone without exercise and without connecting with others. I have to remind myself that I a lot of what I love and choose to do is sedentary and isolated from the non cyber world.
Sounds like you are not going to be judging your decisions. Good for that!!!
Love
kj
Well said and you made some great points. I agree with everything you wrote! Thanks for articulating my own feelings about what I do.
ReplyDeleteI agree! We hear so much about the downside of time spent on the computer but....friends and inspiration can be found in abundance there! And, doing what I love because that's who I am....really need that reminder regularly! Thank you!
ReplyDelete-clapping hands- about your post! i've been coming to the same kind of conclusions. that i _can_ do, what i enjoy doing, and that's fine.
ReplyDeletewell, i'm still in the process of "beating down" the odd bits-of-2nd-guessing-and-guilt, which still crop up. but i'm moving myself into this new paradigm shift.
i'm not drawn to art, as much as to writing. no, not fiction or poetry or anything "large." :-) just the writing i do, on the net.
i love doing it!!!! so i can spend my time, doing it!!! and the rest of the things i enjoy, about the net!!!
hooray for us!!!
:-)