This week I have been thinking a lot about
My own imperfection that is! It’s all too easy to wear rose tinted glasses with my blog. To show the world only the good things that happen in our house and my life. But that isn’t the full story, it’s not the Truth. And I don’t think it helps anyone.
I started this blog, partly to occupy myself, partly to share my experiences with the world in the hope that I may be able to help another mummy going through similar life changes as me. If I pretend that everything is hunky dory, that every baking attempt goes well, that every playtime idea is a success, I’m putting forward a false picture of my life.
So this week has been about taking off those rose tinted glasses and saying yup I am an imperfect person. I fail sometimes. I have bad days. I am human. So I pick myself up, dust myself down, forgive myself for my failings and try to learn something so that I may be more successful next time. You can read more about this here and here, if you want to 🙂
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I know what you mean. It’s why I started being more honest on my blog about the not so great stuff too. I’m genuinely a glass half full person, but I do have my moments and they can be quite spectacular when they come! 🙂
This is exactly it, I try to look on the positive side but noone can be positive or get things right all the time so it is good to share the downs as well as the ups 🙂 Thank you 🙂 xx
You’re right, nobody’s perfect and people who blog under that guise are a tad annoying! #WotW
Ha ha they’re just unrealistic and make readers feel like they are failing or something! Much prefer a bit of honest imperfection 🙂 xx
Here here Alex!!
Great post, and you’re so right. No one can be perfect, and it’s impossible for every day to go well, so yes, pick yourself up and move on to the next possibly great or possibly disastrous day! Thanks for sharing with #WotW x
Thank you! That is exactly it, and pretending that things go well every time just sets up unrealistic ideals. Pleasure! 🙂 xx
Great word Caroline. In my opinion the words perfect/ion and parent have no place in the same sentence #WotW
Thank you and I so agree, just wish I’d realised earlier! 🙂 xx
great word and reasoning behind it, it takes a brave person to be honest and i know what u mean…blogs can sometimes seem like ppl have perfect lives but we all know it isnt possible to have a perfect life 🙂 #WotW
Thanks, this is exactly it. I suppose that blogs are only a glimpse into someone’s life really, not the whole story, but for me it just feels easier to be honest than to try and keep up a pretence of perfection! xx
it’s hard to remember in these days of media that Facebook or twitter is not true reflections of life. only the good things tend to be made public. great word.
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It really is, it all gives such an unrealistic glossy image that reality can’t live up to. Time to embrace imperfection I think! 🙂 thank you xx