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there are days when i think i’ll just stop Tumbling. days when i get frustrated about the groups that feel like cliques (obviously they only feel like cliques because i’m not a part of them). moments when it baffles me that my follower count keeps going up but the likes & comments i get seems to go down. times when i get upset about people stealing from my blog - the very few drops of creativity i have in my little body just being swiped from me. i get irrationally upset about this at times. i mean one night as i was trying to get to sleep it popped into my head and i got heated just thinking about it. i would never just take someone else’s words/thoughts/pieces of their life and try to pass them off as my own. without so much as a nod to the fact that i got the “idea” from them or stole their sentiment entirely. this bothers me more than it should, i know that. but some days i notice my words on someone else’s blog and i think “THAT’S IT! i’m just not posting anymore, if i don’t write it they can’t steal it” but then i get frustrated about that because it’s not fair that i can’t write my thoughts for fear that someone else is lousy enough to act like they’re theirs. it’s not like my words are that great anyway. and lets face it i don’t have that much free time between chasing my wee human, playdates, shopping, and overall on-the-go-ness, so to think i’m going to spend those precious spare minutes doing something i’m not loving is insane.
but in the end i’m not ready to go yet, i really do love the Tumblr community even though there are always some who have to ruin it for others. but i love being able to follow you guys; other mothers - ones with children close to my son’s age, ones with older children, younger kids, or ones with no children yet. i love being able to keep up with the young ladies of Tumblr and their killer fashion sense, delicious recipes and menus, and ideas on what products i need that are going to change my life (and they often do). i mean heck, i have 4 colors of nail polish in my collection now that aren’t a shade of mauve - that would’ve never happened without Tumblritas.
and it’s thanks to people like this awesome lady that my faith in the Tumblr community has been restored. not 5 minutes after i posted about that H&M hat this lovely gem of a humanbeing was in line purchasing it for me! i mean if that’s not the power of Tumblr at work then i don’t know what is.
and because of her (and the rest of you like her) i’m going to try to let the things that bother me about Tumblr roll off my back, i know it’ll take work with my personality but i’m really going to try. very hard - because i want to stick around as a part of this community, i really like it here.
