tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474887808224703761.post1056672792370011200..comments2010-11-03T14:11:59.754-07:00Comments on Real Me at 42: 5 Month Update: Ups and Downs of a Rollercoaster LifeRealMe@42http://www.blogger.com/profile/02563575582338720707noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474887808224703761.post-33043062690708602662010-08-30T19:53:08.231-07:002010-08-30T19:53:08.231-07:00It has been hard keeping up with the blog. I'...It has been hard keeping up with the blog. I'm proud to have stuck with it. <br /><br />My volunteer work is important to me. I would do this work even when I had a paying job. I'm just doing more of it right now since I'm having no luck finding something that pays.<br /><br />I'm also using the time to figure what I want out of life which is why I started this blog to begin with. And I know I'm not the only person who feels like this so I figure taking my journey in public is good for me and might help me find others who feel the same.RealMe@42https://www.blogger.com/profile/02563575582338720707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474887808224703761.post-22334422531972083772010-08-30T19:05:39.761-07:002010-08-30T19:05:39.761-07:00That's pretty crazy, it's a bummer that yo...That's pretty crazy, it's a bummer that you lost your job, but it's pretty cool that you have so much other stuff going on. How do you find the time to blog about it?Starshard0https://www.blogger.com/profile/15963752708187923887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5474887808224703761.post-64656025158880903542010-08-30T02:38:36.667-07:002010-08-30T02:38:36.667-07:00Hi Real Me
It's so interesting how much you a...Hi Real Me<br /><br />It's so interesting how much you achieve in your life that's fulfilling & worthwhile - plus getting an impressive amount of outside attention for your hobbies and volunteering work - yet, as you say, this is still a separate realm in your self-perception from those big projects that haven't been started yet. <br /><br />It struck me that the things you're achieving are strongly process-based: hobbies, volunteering and building stronger social networks of reciprocal help aren't exactly projects that you start and finish (although they might contain more specific projects, like your event), you just do them gradually and they carry on as long as you wish them to. <br /><br />It's funny that your house organising cracked at 95% done. Whenever I tackle some major organising / decluttering, I always, always end up with a chaotic little pile of stuff that I just cannot sort out. I used to feel guilty about not finishing the job. Then I began to believe that you actually have to honour one small patch of chaos in your world, because chaos is a necessary energy to keep things moving. 100% order and efficiency is death. Also, it's a little reminder that we humans aren't perfect - a bit like how Islamic artists and Aran knitters will put a deliberate mistake in their work, so that they don't compete with the perfection they attribute to their understandings of God. I think something along these lines is Gretchen Rubin's reason for keeping both a junk drawer and an empty shelf: you honour places in your world for perfect clarity and perfect chaos, but then find your own way to live well between these two extremes.<br /><br />I'm curious as to whether this is a wider, perhaps unspoken phenomenon of decluttering - you can get almost to the end, 95% done, and then something somehow just conspires to make the process break down. But the crucial thing is proportion. Keeping one little box or drawer of intractable junk isn't the same as the strain of living in constant clutter and chaos. So I hope you're able to persist and finish the house organising so that you're happy with the result.<br /><br />And I hope you get to roll down a hill before too long as well :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com