But when it comes to Pinterest….. I would need 10 lifetimes, $4.5 million dollars, a team of assistants, and stock in hot glue to even begin to accomplish, taste, or visit, a tenth of the pins I have posted.
It is slowly becoming an obsession…
And at first I was like “oh wow look at all the great things I’m so inspired” and now after a few months I’m all “oh hey look at all the great things I haven’t done I’m so lazy”
It is almost unreal the amount of creativity that is out there…. Until two months ago I thought the only thing you could do with Nutella was drown your sorrows in it by dipping pretzels in the jar and licking it off your fingers… now I know you can make hot cocoa, fondue, milkshakes, fruit dip, cookies, brownies… it’s the gift that keeps on giving.
And if I had long hair I would know how to braid it, and bun it and headband it in every form imaginable…
I have learned how to turn old t-shirts into roses, vests, headbands and scarves.
I can make a rosette out of just about any material you give me except for fondant…
I have found quotes on motivation, frustration, infatuation, and imitation… I have seen the sunsets of Venice, and Ireland, and Africa. And if I ever need a five dollar gift in under five minutes I could turn to Pinterest and find 358 options with one click.
I would imagine that if we could somehow illustrate what goes on inside creative genius’s minds like Dr. Seuss, and Tom Ford, and Tyler Perry Pinterest is probably what it would look like.
It is a world of endless options and just by simply clicking on little pictures you find yourself thinking… “I could do that, I could make that, I could go there, I could wear that”
It’s a brilliant concept… a place where nothing is off limits, people post sayings and inappropriately funny cartoons that one would never share on a public forum but in the privacy of Pinterest we find ourselves laughing out loud to them.
There is no personal profile dictating who you should be, no friend stream, no conversation, just ideas, tossed about to and fro. If you like it you repin it if you don’t you move along…
There is a quote that has been following me around for the last 6 months… its from Emily Dickinson and it says quite simply “Dwell in the Possibilities” I have this hanging two places in my house and it is a quote I find popping up everywhere I turn.
Pins really are just possibilities… that’s all…. Just little pictures that get you thinking and keep you open to trying something new. And because of that I just don’t think you can have too many of them.
It’s an addiction with most and I think that is because we are all just desperate for creativity, desperate for options, and where else in the world do we get to just look and pick and choose our likes and dislikes in such an uninhibited manner…. Where else do we get to organize our possibilities and look them in the eye every single day…. What other place allows us to pick each other’s brains…..and catch a spark off of someone else’s fire?
It sounds a little far stretched but I do imagine in some ways that Pinterest is sort of what I imagine heaven to be…
A place thoughts and ideas are translated without conversation, and boundaries and limitations are words that hold absolutely no weight…
And images are used in place of conversation because regardless of the language you speak…. A picture needs no translation.
I can begin to feel a little overwhelmed at all that I have not done… until I remember this truth…
That just because something hasn’t happened…. Doesn’t mean it isn’t going to…it just hasn’t happened yet
And when I do remember that, I realize that makes everything…. A possibility.
And who doesn’t want to swim in those all day long?
When I graduated from high school, I knew that there was NOTHING I couldn't do. Life was filled with possibilities. If I wanted to be a rocket scientist or a musician or a teacher or a physicist, all I needed to do was work hard enough and life was open to me.
ReplyDeleteThen I spent 20 years running a print shop and when I was done with that and ready to start again, I looked at life a little differently. I didn't like that outlook. I KNEW there were things I couldn't do. I didn't like having my possibilities taken away. I'm too old, my brain isn't quite as flexible, I've lost too much time for all the training I'd need, I didn't build 20 years of contacts needed to get into whatever industry ... on and on.
It's hard to drag myself back to the realization that life is filled with possibilities - I just have to go after them!
Ohhh Diane I so get that.... with every year it is harder and harder to remember that but I cannot tell you how much your leap to go to Seminary has inspired me I just think its great!
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