First of all, I want to thank Marko Saric of How to Make My Blog for the honor of showcasing my guest post,
It talks about blogging and writing outside your niche, but putting your own personality into it. Blogging is a big part of my life. It is important to me because it allows me to use my creativity in a different artistic medium than I used as a kid. It wasn’t until I looked at writing as drawing pictures with words, that I even gave it a chance.
I am often told that I think too much. And just as often, I have to agree with that. It is difficult sometimes to quiet my mind. It comes up with all these ideas and sometimes, like Jody, my brain hurts. I get lost in those ideas and then stop myself because I don’t know which one to follow first.
But the one thing I have learned about myself, is that all that thinking is the creativity in the right side of my brain battling with the logical, suppose to be, that comes from the left side of my brain. My poor family has to live with a little zaniness living with me. But in the end, I make them laugh.
My Mom often tells the story of a time before I was five, when I got sent to my room. Neither of us can remember why. She said it got too quiet so she came up to check on me. I had taken my crayons and drawn a full blown flower garden on the walls of my room. “They’re for you, Mommy!” is all I said.
Or the time when my daughter was struggling with her spelling word, RHYTHM. I came up with a little jingle that now haunts her. Rap Happy, Your Time Happy Music. Anytime she hears the word, that jingle plays in her head. She gets so mad at me, but it makes her laugh.
My art and my drawing (and now my writing) are my fun and recreation. It allows me to escape the day to day responsibilities and have to’s.
One of my creative endeavors, and part of the zaniness that my family lives with is based on the Wizard of Oz. One of the things that I haven’t shared too much is my other blog, We’re Not in Oz Anymore. For over 20 years, I have used the characters, scenes, and magic of the movie, to help me heal my childhood. It is the place that allows me to see myself in a creative, magical way and deal with the every day BS that runs through my brain. This is the one place that it is about me! It helps me to believe in the power of the Ruby Red Slippers and how someday I will truly learn to believe in myself.
Creativity and our imaginations are what can keep us motivated to change. When things get too boring or routine, change it up. Use your imagination, to look at things differently. You might just be a little surprised how fun it can be.
I, too, have been often accused of thinking too much as well as *feeling* too much. I can’t help it, it’s just how I’m built, and after 45 years of living I’m tired of trying to change. I agree that it contributes to my creativity and overall passion & zest for life! Nothing wrong with that!
xoxoxoxo
Yes – I defenately think too much. I think that makes me a writer… it’s all trapped in my brain just bursting to get out! I have a little something waiting for you on my blog today
~ Renee
I think too much too, but for me then I tend to worry and that’s not healthy for me. It’s why writing things down is so healing – it puts some of the worries and thoughts on paper so I don’t have to think about them too much!
Always making me think, Jules!
Great post & I love the way you use your mind for healing! Loved the family stories!!!
As for the Wizard of Oz, love that movie & as a kid, the one time we were allowed to eat at the TV table & we all watched it as a family! I will have to check out that blog.
I’m in there to on the thinking way too much. For me it manifests itself into never being able to make a decision with out agonizing over it! I’m learning to accept and love and value this part of me–the thinking part–but it can add to the worries and create a few conflicts when you have a husband who doesn’t think like you. But it’s all good. Enjoyed the post.
People with addictive natures always think too much!
The flipside is the creativity of course …you are so fluid with your thoughts …lovely to watch.
I have learnt to feel more and think less…
Oh girl! You are reading my mind, seriously. My post for Monday is, “What would life be like if we stopped over thinking?” We must be uni-mind lol!
I touch upon what you say here about the blessing and curse that is creativity. Stay tuned.
I am also a big over thinker. But instead of helping me put my creativity to use, it brings me down. I love hearing about how you deal with over thinking. It’s so positive. I think I will follow suit.
Hi,
From the title I first perceived a judgment about thinking, as if there was something wrong with it.
I loved how when I read the post I did not see anything wrong at all.
What I see is a delightful allowing of play, a delightful interaction about appearance and beyond.
I do think we actually do NOT think enough, our play with thoughts gets too often interrupted by shoulds and cannots, all the boring limitations that have stifled our Einstein like geniuses. It is that free play that has given birth to new directions for me, those playful thoughts have organized that I am now living in the country growing my own food and living in a picture postcard garden.
So, you go and think too much, I think it is delightful beyond measure and I wholeHEARTedly agree that it brings change, different thoughts bring different results, right?
Love Wilma