by Peter Sacks (love you Mina!) I get asked more about sharing my life than anything else. As in: how do I share more of myself online? How do I feel comfortable showing people my writing when I don’t think it’s perfect? Do you ever feel weird being so exposed?
So much of this resonates with me. I've had two short stories from first person narratives published, and it makes me feel happy but also terrified. My writing is a window into everything that makes me me, and having strangers on the internet read it terrifies me so much. But I really hope it doesn't stop me from writing or sharing, because I can only write what I know. :)
Love your last line: To write because we each have something to say. I'm not sure why I started writing publicly but the more I do it, the more I realises it helps to crystallise my thoughts about the world, and to stay connected with others.
I get that feeling of being exposed though. I worry about what friends would think about me, whether I appear stupid, naive, or even inconsistent with my physical self. Reading your piece reminds that to have others read and think something of the words I write is already an amazing thing.
Harder said than done, but allowing to express your raw self can be liberating as well as deeply authentic. The good and the bad together is what makes us unique, and what makes us human.
i feel terrified putting any writing about myself onto the internet, this hit hard! what pushes me to do it is so often i feel opposite to your sometimes-thought in last paragraph: everything is experience and memory, there is much more value in that, as compared to the commodified porridge around us that keeps accelerating and accelerating...
I wrote about this recently too! I love writing in private just to have an archive of my thoughts if i ever wanted to look back. Covid made this a really lonely process though, so I thought, might as well make it public, to be uh.. less lonely.
So much of this resonates with me. I've had two short stories from first person narratives published, and it makes me feel happy but also terrified. My writing is a window into everything that makes me me, and having strangers on the internet read it terrifies me so much. But I really hope it doesn't stop me from writing or sharing, because I can only write what I know. :)
I hope you will continue writing. and sharing. I can imagine that a lot of people will benefit from it.
Love your last line: To write because we each have something to say. I'm not sure why I started writing publicly but the more I do it, the more I realises it helps to crystallise my thoughts about the world, and to stay connected with others.
I get that feeling of being exposed though. I worry about what friends would think about me, whether I appear stupid, naive, or even inconsistent with my physical self. Reading your piece reminds that to have others read and think something of the words I write is already an amazing thing.
Harder said than done, but allowing to express your raw self can be liberating as well as deeply authentic. The good and the bad together is what makes us unique, and what makes us human.
Love you writing and the view about everyday life.
Writing is something very difficult and at the same time very helpful, sharing your ideas on the paper and then re read it.
I would love to see your instagram account, I don’t know why I have this thought that it will be
more interesting which will be helpful for
my everyday scrolling 🌷
i feel terrified putting any writing about myself onto the internet, this hit hard! what pushes me to do it is so often i feel opposite to your sometimes-thought in last paragraph: everything is experience and memory, there is much more value in that, as compared to the commodified porridge around us that keeps accelerating and accelerating...
I wrote about this recently too! I love writing in private just to have an archive of my thoughts if i ever wanted to look back. Covid made this a really lonely process though, so I thought, might as well make it public, to be uh.. less lonely.