🌸DEAR STEEM DIARY - WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE LIFE AS A DREAMER, AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR FLOW 🌸

You may have read my Steemit bio - Soft hearted foodie. Drinks too much coffee. Posts about food, restaurants, antiques and design. Listens to punk rock and lives in a cloud

Dear Steem Diary

You know me. I have always been a dreamer. In my Steemit Intro post I even wrote:

"About me. I'm a soft-hearted thinker. I spend a lot of my time up in the clouds, dreaming. I'm also one of those creative types. Not the freelance-sit-in-a-cafe-all-day-on-my-Mac type, but more the kinda girl who sees a rust coloured leaf and dreams up a whole collection of dresses inspired by said leaf. By the time I'm home, I'm onto the next thing. I should get a notebook, I know"

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I choose to say dreamer. Others might say preoccupied, or even spacey. I don't like that one 😅

A few times I have I walked to the store, bought my goods, and walked out without my groceries. One time I walked into the wall (omg, how?!) and another into the power line in the street.

In the past, I know I was not paying attention to the current situation, I was thinking of something else, I was looking at the girl with the pretty hair, or getting lost in a story in my head

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Do you remember my short story "Hope", where I wrote from two view points, a beggar's and a rich girl's? That stemmed from me driving past a young beggar girl, thinking of what it is like to be in her shoes, and day dreaming until I arrived home. I was incensed to put pen to paper, and out flowed that story.

That was a good result. Sometimes, I notice some bad results.

Lately, I have been noticing some very bad results. I cannot listen to someone speaking to me, because the info is not going in entirely. For work, the information sinks in. I think, that is because, I am on at work. The moment it's a social thing (and I mean a conversation with a stranger, not a friend), I think my brain is off and not taking in any more information for the day. SHOP CLOSED.

Last year, I had a problem finishing books. This year, I have been reading like a crazy horse, devouring each and every page like hay. I know this is because I have turned myself off from traditional social media and mind numbing crap on TV.

But in the past week, I can't get myself to pick up my kindle, and just read. I could hardly write a post last week. I am definitely preoccupied. I know what it is. I have worked every Saturday for a while now, and had little to no sleep last week, as we kept having break-ins at my shop. I also worked until midnight last week one evening, on my feet and being the smiley hostess lady.

An oversaturated brain is bad for the soul. It's bad for creativity. The moment I am rested up and not worried about work the words flow and the ideas pop. It's important to take a moment and go hoooooosah.

These Dear Steem Diary posts are therapeutic for me. I am so glad I started this series, it really gets the creative juices flowing, and I encourage you to also just write.

You'll feel more organised, like your shit is together. It's good.

So thank you for being there for me to get my brain straight. I love the feedback and look forward to intereacting with my Steem fam. 💜