Your creativity is a gift”. Those were words spoken to me by a friend as I lamented the curse of my creativity and my apparent unwillingness, or shall we call it inability, to ever do things they way everyone else did… or worse, the way I was told it was supposed to be done. I was always seeing another path, a new way, a road not trampled, but through the typical influences we face as children I was taught that this was more or less a crime… until that day. It was like my friend reached into my soul and freed me from my need for constant approval… for always doing things my own way… because I was always so willful that even when others made me feel like who I was more or less quantified me as a criminal…. I did it anyways. (Ps. None of my activities were actually criminal… This girl does NOT look good in orange!) hahahaha
People always talk about the proverbial fork in the road of life, but my experience has been that we are faced with these forks over and over. It’s a willful choice every day that we must make to travel down the path we believe is ours… however unchartered, unpaved, and untested it might be. Some roads we must forge alone.
I believe that it is the very nature of human survival that some preserve methods and systems that have historically worked… and others blaze new trails. There should be no shame in being either one, because the world would probably fall apart if we were all re-inventing systems every single day but it might also cease to exist if we are not pioneers in our own fields! Think of all the things we have discovered in the last few hundred years! Cars, airplanes, railroads, rocket ships, cures to diseases, air conditioning, the light bulb, the INTERNET…
I thought finding a community of people who loved to decorate was the best thing the world could offer, but instead I found something so far beyond that… a group of people who champion the road yet forged. God. I have goosebumps on my goosebumps!! What an incredible thing that we have come from all corners of the globe and rather than facing this unforged path alone, we are an entire group of people championing each other in our journey, at home and in life.
I wish I could have known when I started my very first blog way back in 2007 that this simple little thing called the internet would bring a community together of millions. I am both humbled and excited- imagine what is to come!!
With a whole weekend ahead, I cannot wait to see so many of you who join us across all our social media outposts. I read your comments, your words of encouragement… your words, they cheer me and I hope I can always give you the same!
I wish you a wonderful weekend! Sending the biggest squeezey kind og hug that you get from your dearest friend and a kiss for each cheek. xxV
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