I’m afraid to tell

First off I’ve had better days. The old air conditioner refuses to cool much. It’s hard to chill with our heatwave. Oh, any toasty well baked readers from the southern desert type places - we don’t do dry heat in Chicagoland just the sticky heavy heat. 

I don’t post much about the weather but I have. I don’t post much about serious topics but I have. Selecting a posting topic is the topic of the day. Today’s browsing travels found me reading a few posts following the “theme” (or meme) of “Things I'm Afraid to Tell”.

Source: elcuriosocaseron.blogspot.com via lisleman on Pinterest

True confessions blogger style 

My light hearted you-are-not-serious attitude would have me selecting the above picture for these posts. But the blogger EZ (today was my first blog visit there) offered up a more appropriate button (below) for this challenge. EZ wrote a great post about the challenge and revealed some personal feelings.

These posts are very serious. More serious than I typically post. Reading a post like this the first time on an unfamiliar blog is ----- not sure what word to use but it's a little like being seated next to that lady on the plane that starts telling you her life drama story and you just wanted to look out the window. (oh those airplane seat neighbors are not always a Chatty Cathy. I’ve had a few Chatty Charlies. Truth be told - I can get a little talkative at times too.)
 
Please don’t attack me as being a clueless insensitive jerk (those issues have popped up in my past). No I understand we all blog for different reasons. I’m a big believer in diversity. I would not want a world where we all thought the same way. Bloggers revealing their internal feelings and issues benefit others by offering their group support.
 
I like what EZ wrote -

“...made a conscious choice to focus on light-hearted subjects and beauty as a daily reminder to myself to always seek that side of life...”

(Ok I don’t cover “beauty” too much but I don’t wear make-up either and I think she might)

But lighten-up because I do believe it is the better side of the street.
 
Ok I’ll remind you of one thing I’ve mentioned somewhere on a past post. I just don’t care for lists. This “Things” idea is a list and that’s not appealing to me. Of course the bigger issue is why the big deal about a list. I don’t know. I could make a few guesses about fear of failure and procrastination but I don’t buy into blogging as alternative psychotherapy.
 
In the spirit of this challenge, I’ll reveal one other issue. I struggle in my attempt to find the correct approach to work/life in what I consider the beginning of another phase for me. I can rationalize the hell out of most positions/conditions I find myself in, but in the end that doesn’t provide any truth.  Honestly the sleeping position is very comfortable but I don’t know of a sleeping position that provides any income.
 
So check out the link to EZ’s post which provides plenty about this challenge if you had not heard of it yet.