Confessions of a Blogging Addict

Since I began blogging in January this year I have found it to be very enjoyable and it is amazing how one can make friends over the Internet. I liken it to having pen-friends in other countries when I was a child in one sense, but in another sense the scope of this kind of communication is far more reaching.

I never imagined that people whom I had never met would end up praying for each other and taking a genuine interest in each other’s families. There are the ‘swaps’, the ‘giveaways’, the recipes and all kinds of things like gardening advice. Sometimes I find myself deeply absorbed in thinking about the people that I am getting to know well, especially those where we have exchanged E-mail addresses and can therefore chat about things that it may not be possible to write about on a public blog. Who would have imagined this. It is also possible to feel rejected and left out, this sounds bizarre but it is true.

It has also been very humbling for me to have people tell me the difference my input has made in their lives. I don't take this lightly. I myself was helped by someone else's writing on Impatience. I somehow lost the blog site, but being prone to imaptience it was good for me to read.

I have always been very interested in other people’s lives (I am a keen biography reader) and I genuinely like getting to know people and how life is for them through their blogs. It also helps keep a good perspective when you realise in the end that we are all basically the same, having the same goals for our children, the same painful issues to deal with. The same excitements and so on and so on and so on. There is not a lot of difference in our towns and cities these days with the globalisation that we have.

In wanting to write posts of interest with accompanying photos it has also made me much more aware of my environment and what is around me. I have also learned a lot from other people’s posts and from researching things for my own posts.

So here are the positives, and there are many more, but for me it can also become very addictive. I am having to watch this issue as there are things that I have neglected since I started blogging. Things like card making, knitting, reading, daily walks, writing, backing up my computer, sorting and printing photos, and I guess, other things. I was reading in a very good book recently that it is very beneficial to spend some time each day doing something that one really enjoys and not to feel guilty about it.

So there’s the rub. Not giving up blogging by any means but prioritising and putting it in it’s rightful place and having the right attitude to it. For me, I am an “A” Personality which means I am a perfectionist and want everything done yesterday. I will keep going and not stop way past the time when it would be prudent for me to do so. This can carry over into my blogging. I have so many things that I want to post about that I could be sitting at my computer all day and every day. I also can spend hours catching up on all my blogging friends which I love.

However, like everything else in life I know that it is God who is in charge of my life and I can trust Him. Whatever we try to fight in our own strength, fights us back. I see that I must hand this over to Him like every other issue in my life and know that He will have it in it’s rightful place. So yes, I am going to continue blogging and keeping up with your posts but I am trusting God that I will be more relaxed about it and not feel that I have to post every day, even though I may want to.