Tag-surfing-> a thankyou to the Bloggers of WordPress.

Today I went tagsurfing. I saw many little exerts from people’s lives, someone had started painting their appartment today with their loved one and had posted pictures of it on their blog, someone had written a poem about their wonderful pursuit of love, another had joined a Life Drawing Course, another has just today fixed a problem with their computer and is over the moon about it, another celebrates the wonderful art of the pre-Raphaelite era, an era that I too am very fond of, another speaks of her new-found self-confidence, discovered in the form of poetry, a poet’s words that have helped to pick her up and set her back on what she sees as the right path- good for her!-, another is visiting China for the first time and is sharing wonderful, beautiful images of their visit, another masterfully plays the piano for us, another contemplates on the evil that is a lack of English subtitles on certain animes, another is nearly 9 months pregnant and has partaken in a maternity photoshoot to comemorate this…

My point today is… all these wonderful, beautiful people here on the internet… each of you has something amazing to share, something that will enrich the hour of a reader, something you want to proclaim to the world, you are proud of it, happy to be here in some form or another. I see such ambition in all these blogs I’ve read today via the tagsurfer, each of you are wonderful.

I wish with all my heart that I could be like you people. And like any of you will ever read this, but thankyou.

Thankyou for giving me an insight into how life can be. How life can be wonderful, even if it is just a moment shared with a loved one, a stepping stone which proves how far you’ve both come together. Even if it is just the love, the chase and the pursuit itself is full of beauty, and that passion is something to live for. Even if it is just a drawing class- you’ve joined that in a wish to enrich and enhance your experience of life, and who knows? You could go so far. Even if it is just fixing a problem with your computer, hell, I can’t fix mine! You’ve overcome a difficulty, and one day you could even help others with what you’ve learnt from that experience. Even if it is just having a love of a certain era of painting, you’ve found an interest that will influence the way you’re living, if you’re an artist maybe will influence the way you express yourself in your art; it will give you a personal flair to enrich your life. Even if it is just picking yourself up off that floor through poetry- you’ve overcome something. I don’t know what it was, but you’ve pulled yourself up and moved on with your life and you should be damn proud that you have the strength of character to do that. Even if it is just visiting a foreign country and sharing your experience of it, that in itself will create so many beautiful memories for you, and the act of sharing is just as beautiful. Even if it is just performing the piano, how masterfully you play! For a long time you’ve worked to become so amazing, and it’s paid off- you are amazing. And your talent brings joy to so many. Even if it’s just complaining, you might even go on to do something about it, and help others who complain about the lack of English subtitles! Even if it’s just a maternity photoshoot, wow you will show that to your child when he or she is born, and you will kiss them and tell them how happy they make you, and how you cherish every moment with them, and always have done right from the start- that person could grow up to be like any one of these other people; the painter, the poet, the decorator, the artist, the traveller, the technician, the pursuer to name a few. And you will look back at their life and smile. And they will thank you for bringing them into this world where they can grow up to become one of these amazing people, whose lives I catch a glimpse at through the narrow space that is the tagsurf.

Thankyou for showing me those little snippets of your lives.

I wish I could lead as amazing lives as you can.

I hope one day I’ll overcome this.

So one day I could be a painter, a poet, a decorator, an artist, a traveller, a technician, or a pursuer.

One day.

…Oh one more thing. I came across a poem today, one line got me in particular. The poet’s name was Thomas Kareem, he entitles himself to be a BGTA (Black Gay Teen Artist), and he wrote this poem named “A Boy Like Me”, which really got me to think. I won’t post the whole poem for fear of plaguarism. But this poem, and these two lines of his brought me to tears.

Feet, don’t fail me now.
I got a long way to go.

Thankyou. I have a long way to go too. I just hope I can make it one day, like you’ve begun to make it. You’ll probably never read this, but you are a true artist, and your words inspired me today.

~ by Vicki on June 16, 2007.