Behind The Blog: Scribbles

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Scribblesis another one of my favourite bloggers. She’s a great writer and her book reviews always give me great inspiration for what to read next! If she’s not already on your list of daily reads, she really should be!

What led you to start your blog?
 
I love to write and I wanted a creative outlet in which do so. In some of my secret dreams, I see myself as a teacher and a magazine columnist.

How did you choose your topic?

My blog focuses on love, life and literature… I am a romantic wee soul that still believes in the gallant and chivalrous knight dream and my life so far has failed to live up that fantasy. I believe that there are a lot of topics that consume our 20-something minds that we’d all feel far more comfortable with if we knew we weren’t alone – the disasters of life happen to EVERYONE. And the literature? I just love books and as I’ve continued with the blog the content has seemed to take a more literary bent.

What do you love most about blogging?
 
The freedom to express myself in whatever way I want. I’m a lot more honest with my readers than I am with a lot of my friends and that’s made me question my honesty and transparency with my IRL people. I’ve started being a lot more open with some of my newer friends and I think the relationship that we have is more close and real because of it.

What makes you happy  and what do you do to make yourself happy?
 
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens… in all seriousness though, its often little random things that will bring me joy. I’ll be sitting in a moment and just feel aglow with an internal fire of joy. If I’m in a really funky mood, I literally have to keep telling myself to snap out of it and there’s no use in trying to cheer me up before I’m ready.

What one thing, above all else, makes you happy to be you?
 
Despite certain boys not loving who I am in the past, I know that the combination of unique traits I have makes me an incredible catch and that one day I WILL have the whole package – a job I love, a fantastic hubby who appreciates the entire package of me, gorgeous kids who I’ll be able to raise in the same loving environment that I had growing up… and hey, if I managed to lose the last fifteen extra kilos, a pretty rockin’ bod too.

What’s important to you?
 
Family is hugely important – both immediate and extended. I’m very close to two of my female cousins and have two male cousins of a similar age that I’m fairly close to as well. My friends are important too – one of the things that makes me sad about my mum being ill is that my friends tell me less of their problems, they don’t want to burden me. Living as the best possible me I can is probably the umbrella goal and everything else just rains down from that in glittery little sparkles.

What do you want your impact on the world to be?
 
I want to make a difference – I don’t necessarily want the fame and the glory but I want the world to be a better place because I existed.

How are you going to achieve this?
 
I take opportunities to serve others – I’m lucky to have plenty of opportunities through my faith but the world has many many charitable programmes that people can contribute time and money to. I’ve also had friends who are struggling financially and I’ve bought them grocery and petrol vouchers… the saying that charity begins at home is very true.

Tell me about a valuable lesson you’ve learned in your life.
What led you to make this discovery and how did it make you feel?

When I’d split up with my partner at the end of ’07 and it felt like my world was falling apart, I seriously contemplated not giving up my stable full-time job to pursue the career that I desperately wanted in teaching. I had all these ‘what ifs’ running through my head. Maybe Ex-S wouldn’t have left me if he didn’t feel like he was so responsible for our financial security… A very wise friend of mine said this to me as I cried down the phone to her – “[Scribs], there’s a million reasons always why we shouldn’t chase these complex but incredible dreams and often only one reason why we should – because it’s what we’re meant to do”. That’s stuck with me through all the uphill slogs in ’08 and gives me motivation to achieve all my dreams.

If you could give Sparkle and Glitter readers one piece of advice, what would it be?
 
Follow your heart. I know that it sounds cliche, but your heart generally knows what your deepest desires are even if your brain seems to disagrees and doing anything less than what your heart truly dreams of will make you unhappy. 

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