Celibate and Sane: What's the Hype About Blogging Anyway?

February 12, 2010

What's the Hype About Blogging Anyway?

When I was a teenager and even into my early twenties, I regularly kept a diary. It was a source of amusement in my later years, especially reading back over the entries in reference to boys.

I was never one to fall in love with a different boy every week like some of my friends. When I did have a crush on someone, he would inevitably disappoint me somehow, whether by acting silly or by saying something hurtful. If only I had understood at the time that it was probably just his way of getting my attention.

Throughout high-school I never dated any of the boys, mainly because I was too shy and because most of the boys seemed rather .... well .... stupid to me.

Into my early 20s, I was so extremely shy and self-conscious that before going out on a date, I would be literally ill with nerves for several hours beforehand.

Fortunately I grew out of my shyness and as I look back over the years and recall the utter hell I went through as I grew up, I almost find it hard to remember how difficult it really was for me. I am so comfortable with myself now and confident, that in some ways I am completely unlike the extremely introverted and naive young thing I used to be. I think there's a part of me that wants to forget those difficulties, but as a mature woman with a number of younger women friends, it's important not to forget these things so that I can perhaps help them if they are going through similar trials.

So the reason I have started this blog is for my musings and memories. When I'm in my eighties, I'll be able to look back on the woman I was in my forties and smile at how little I really knew.

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”