wake me, I am dreaming

What happened I wonder?

Did I fall asleep and wake up in an alternate reality? It all feels so weird, everyone is concerned and yet I am still in a blissful state of calm. It hasn’t registered as yet; this is my body and my minds way of protecting me in times of great disturbance. Instead of feeling the whole impact at the time, it slows things down but then eventually, after the event, it seems to register. This way I suppose, I remain rational in the face of turbulence. I don’t freak out too badly afterwards either because then, then worst has passed.

I happened upon an old newspaper at my sister’s house, it was an advert for budding writers, it was like a sign, a cue from the gods. It said if you have the urge to write, then this is for you. And so I followed its advice and went on the website, registered where it asked me to and eventually found my way onto this blog. And there are a lot of budding authors out there and since that is what we (yes I said we) authors do, there was a lot of advice, encouragement, testimonials and success stories in general. I suppose as a writer, a story of ones failure usually makes for good reading.

I have always wanted to start a blog of my own; I am broke as is the requirement for most artists and so when I was directed to this free blogging site, I was pretty chuffed and started to write right away. As it turns out, several years ago, I actually posted a picture of my sons at Christmas on this same website, I had just acquired a new phone and was messing around with it and as a result, the picture got posted on this blogging site. The posting was meant to be a test, I left it there and pretty much forgot about it. Just the other day, I wondered what had become of that picture in cyberspace, I wondered if the account had been closed as is the case with redundant email accounts.

As I re-registered on the blogging site, I found that the picture was still there. I put it there 5 years ago, it seems like ages ago but then it is. So much has happened in that time too. I may have to take the kids picture off so that I can blog with relative anonymity.