Read the following quote and think on it:
"My students were middle-class kids who were ashamed of their background. They felt like unless they grew up in poverty, they had nothing to write about...I felt sorry for these kids, that they thought their whole past was absolutely worthless because it was less than remarkable."
-David Sedaris, from an interview in January Magazine
Admit it. You've said, "I have nothing to blog about. My life is boring." Haven't you. Haven't you?
Your challenge is to write about it anyway.
Write about your less than remarkable life. Write about your routines, your habits, your schedule. Find the unremarkable things about your life and CELEBRATE them.
Go - be remarkable!
I loved this challenge, the person posting this challenge posted the most incredible response...and motivated me so much.
What is remarkable in MY life. I have a wonderful husband, we have been married for 23 years TODAY! I have 2 adorable kids. A lovely 13 year old daughter, who has the most tender heart and a 5 year old son who's heart is just as tender, even though he likes to think of himself as tough.
I GET to stay home and take care of my family. I love that I have been there for them for the past 5 years. I get to hear all my son's funny little jokes, I get to hear all the small things my daughter worries about. Being a teenager has to be the hardest time of all, worrying about what everyone else thinks about you, and in the big scheme of things it really doesn't matter.
Remarkable. We have spent our summer doing absolutley nothing....me and my kids have been doing excercise tapes in the morning, I'm sure if anyone could see us doing this they would get a good laugh, but we are having fun! We sleep as long as we like, we go and look at almost anything we want to, we do what we want....just a free summer. That is Remarkable!
Sunday, August 20, 2006
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