I Will be Present in the Moment

I take photos because I want to remember. And write because it’s therapeutic; it’s my way to wind down and relax. I love to share ideas and projects that inspire me. I love to create. In addition to scrapbooking (which I already do), I recently started blogging (obviously). Both blogging and scrapbooking help me document the moments, and create a record for my family (and online readers) that we are making the most of life. They also take up a lot of my time. Because now in addition to writing my own blog, I have been invited to guest post on other blogs, enter contests on other blogs and follow more blogs than I have hands and feet. So this new hobby has become one of the most time consuming hobbies I have.

I justify the time spent in my art room arranging photos and the time spent hovering over my computer, uploading pictures and typing away because I enjoy it. But it’s ironic that my blog “The Simple Things” about Simplifying my life/Enjoying the simple things in life has not simplified my life at all. And I don’t want to miss out on creating more memories and enjoying life’s moments because I am too busy recording every single moment of my family’s life from behind the camera, thinking about how I will turn this into a blog post or a scrapbook page layout later. I want to enjoy these moments through my own eyes. I will -occasionally- leave the camera behind. I will focus on the memories as we are making them, not in how I will document them later.

I will be present in the moment.

I originally wrote this as an entry for a contest at Real Simple.com.

~Angela