No, this is very relevant, even in its irrelevant state. Thank you so much for sharing this with me! I appreciate it. I can relate on so many levels, with my own writing going unnoticed by people (my academic articles) and my baking (some people just don't like bread!). And we always take it upon ourselves, we think we did something wrong. But we should always remember that life is just strange with people not caring, what goes on on their screens is more important, it is not about substance and things in themselves, but about appearances and how it makes them look, and a million other reasons.
But it all starts with slowing down, and appreciating what life is... Or so I believe.
Thank you! I guess that's why I shared this with you. I knew that I would hear a confirmation of my own thoughts :)
Cheers!
Sometimes, that can be a good thing, but sometimes also bad! I hope that in this case, it was a good thing. Keep well, my friend. May only good things cross your path, and may the challenges make you stronger.
I came here to read your reply and maybe reply to it but then I noticed your chat with @fotostef and I so love this chat between the two of you - it is very relatable with hubby being an indie author and always wondering what he didn't do or did wrong that his books are not selling more than they do and I had similar thoughts when I was still selling my photography prints. There is just this overload of information readily available for everyone and I feel like a part of the people live to just scroll and scroll without really noticing (us) and another part is trying so hard to ignore all the information in an effort to keep some sanity they are missing out on important, beautiful things. To find the balance will be magical.
Sorry for interjecting in your chat 😇
Thank you so much for this wonderful interjection! I feel the same in so many ways. It is crazy the amount of things we as humans produce on a daily basis, and as you say, it feels like scrolling is just an inherent part of it. And the crazy thing is creating quality content takes time, but modern-era brains want quick fixes and disregard the hard work that goes into creating anything really. I am in academia and "publish or perish" is a real threat to your career, but the consequence of this non-stop publishing of academic papers is that no one will ever really read your papers. I have published a couple of papers and since then I am sure no one even read it. There is this wonderful quote from the author Milan Kundera in his book Unbearable lightness of being, "Sheets of paper covered with words pile up in archives sadder than cemeteries, because no one ever visits them..."
Sorry about this long comment, I think I even lost the plot a bit!
Apologizing for a long comment?! Come on, don't apologize for that 😀. I'm certainly not an academic but that seems - hard and weird.
Anyhow, I like that quote, I really do, I need to write it down, it is good. Thanks for sharing it.
Quotes are sometimes wonderful small packets (or pockets) of knowledge! I always have a quote either hanging in my brain, or written down on pieces of paper.
I like interjections! After all isn't that what life is all about? Interjecting into each others life and moving on :)
Of course after 4 days that I am replying, the conversation has moved forward but I just wanted to tell you that I have read all of it and I find it great that this "meeting" happened without anyone really planned it!
I might as well add that although I was kind of "blaming" people that don't notice, I found myself at the other end of the equation just yesterday as I was the one not noticing, reminding my a Greek saying that can be translated roughly as
"eat a big bite but don't speak big words"
Cheers to both of you @fermentedphil @oceanbee :)
It sure is part of life. Yet, with blogging when I read people's comments and replies it sometimes feels like I'm an intruder into a private conversation. I usually do not reply unless it is really important to me - like this time 😀.
Don't be so hard on yourself for not noticing (something you wished you had noticed) because there is so much all around us all the time - it is hard.