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Wednesday 30 June 2010

Mailed Musings

For a couple of years now every Sunday I have spent ten minutes or so reading possibly one of the best blogs on the internet - post secret.

Founder Frank Warren invites people to write their secrets, something they've never told anyone before on a postcard and mail it to him.

The secrets range from a simply scrawled sentence on a blank background to beautifully drawn illustrations.

As you may expect when you invite people to share their deepest secrets you get a really broad spectrum of thoughts. Secrets about love, hate,life, death, joy sorrow from the young, the old, the married, the single, the divorced and the widowed.

The success of the blog has lead to individual spin off sites for non english secrets from many different country's.

The All America rejects used actual postcards for their video "dirty little secret".

There are art exhibitions all over America, conventions and a suicide hotline funded by the site.
Marriage proposals have been accepted at post secret events and secrets of a lifetime revealed.
Lives have even been saved by the inspirational messages. A few Sundays ago someone posted what can only be described as a suicide note:




The members of the postsecret community threw themselves into a collective effort to save this poor soul. A facebook group called "please don't jump" sprung up filled with kind and hopeful words; an event was held on the golden gate bridge to try and raise awareness of its reputation as the most popular place in the world to commit suicide and to increase pressure on the government to build a suicide barrier.

I am proud to be a member of an online community filled with so much love.

www.postsecret.com

Cross your t's and dot your i's

When you consider a whole class of five year olds is taught to write in the same way by the same person its amazing all the different handwriting styles people develope.

-Big and loopy
-Tiny and neat
-A messy scrawl
- Slanty
-Straight
-Joined up
-Separated

I love to write. There's just something so relaxing about seeing a pen glide across a page and leaving sweeping lines behind it. There's something pretty about a full page of text in the same neat handwriting with no tipex or crossed out words.
Awesomely geeky.

Sunday 27 June 2010

What do people see?

Perception is a funny thing isn't it?

Take for instance this picture.


Do you see a dead end, a lonely place with no turning back?

Or do you see the dip where the path falls before rising once more into the open field. The end of a long struggle before finally feeling freedom, the sunshine on your skin and the grass beneath your feet?

How people think they are perceived and how they are actually perceived are perhaps two completely different things. I see myself as being accommodating but perhaps others see me as being a soft touch. I see myself as outgoing but perhaps others see me as being too loud. Or perhaps i see myself as being shy when i meet new people but others may see this as being endearing.

It goes beyond even emotional levels, to the physical as well. While someone may think of they're bum being too big or being to short others may have quite the opposite view point.

We cant always assume that what we mean to be and what we actually are are the same thing.

Is Romance dead?





Everyone sees romance differently.

It might be letting a girl go through a door first, it might be sending flowers, it might be sending a text to let them know your thinking of them. In the age of technology we live in it doesn't take much for people to let another person know whats on their mind.

But with this age of technology and openness there seems to come a darker side.

The side of the internet where teenagers are bombarded with images of sex, where adverts for adult chat rooms and page three model backgrounds are advertised alongside tescos on websites. Where young girls are emailed by strangers with disgusting sexual requests with no regards to their mental well being. Where people can request pictures and total strangers can see any pictures posted.

In a world that is more open than it was even a mere 10 years in terms of talking about sex the idea of with-holding details of your sex life from friends seems almost daft. With so many people openly discussing it it can make it seem like such a normal part of life and for people in stable mature relationships that's fine but when young teenagers see older siblings and people they respect bragging about how many people they've slept with it puts a pressure on them that wasn't there before.

What happened to when a boy could be sweet for the sake of it without him having an angle or wanting something in return?

What is wrong with just wanting to make a girl smile or laugh. Sending daft little texts to let them know your thinking of them, recommending music that they may like. Even just taking the time to ask them about they're day. I don't want to make it sound like all guys are only after one thing, but sometimes i wonder....

Monday 14 June 2010

Small and Cute


No not me, my pretty little clio =D

Today Im greatful for...


- Unlimited texts.
- Daytime TV
- Walking into strange conversations.
- The prep step, making things a little easier for little people.
- Tiny tubs of ben and jerrys (mini indulgences)
- The fact some people have larger cars, i doubt eight people would have fitted so comfortably into a clio.
- Fairy lights, for making late nights a little more relaxing.

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