Lately I've spent less time blogging, and more time pinning, thanks to my utter addiction to Pinterest.
It's an addiction I never expected to have as in so many ways Pinterest isn't for me, I'm surely not the person it's meant for. I'm not into crafts, and while I like imagining eating the recipes/cakes etc I pin, I'm never going to make 95% percent of them. Nor am I ever going to have the energy/money/suitable house to make the interior designs I'm pinning. (Despite my dreams, the likelihood of me living in a Cape Cod house somewhere in New York State is reasonably unlikely!) I'm also pinning dresses I'll never fit into, handbags and jewellery I could never justify spending the money on etc.
For a while I quit the site because I felt that it was either making me a fraud as everything I was pinning wasn't actually my life or that I just couldn't enjoy other people's earnest pins of genuine projects they had because I'd never get it. I thought it really was about bookmarking the projects you're going to do, and I was going to do basically nothing. I needed a bunch of pins of people sitting on their couch in a totally unorganised house, eating candy for it to be a true reflection of my life. (I actually read an article a friend posted the other day on Pinterest and how it made her feel lesser because she wasn't achieving her pins, so this probably inspired this blog.)
Then, I just decided, to not add "oh my god, I might not make something I pin" to my already sizeable list of pointless worries, and realised that actually a lot of people were pinning pretty pictures, holiday snaps and things that made them think/laugh. I didn't have to take it seriously, I could actually just pin pretty pictures and it was okay. Now I know that, it's all I want to do all day every day. Post pictures of pretty or holiday stuff and the stuff I'll spend my life admiring from afar. I've also found that it has inspired me, not in terms in projects so much as I saw other people start bucket lists etc, which made me think about my own. (It turns out that it's mostly about going to Paris.) I think it's actually also a great way to get an understanding of people and the things they like in a very easy snapshot. Which I like.
I'm also not going to lie, I've gone from feeling like a fraud to really enjoying seeing "<insert name> has repinned your pin". (I prefer to search out my own pins on the web, rather than repin - though I do repin too) It gives me some sort of silly validation that someone else shares my taste, or loved an idea I also loved etc. I seem to spend more time checking the repins and likes then making my own pins, lately. (It's a character flaw. I very much like people liking "me")
So it appears Pinterest has very much taken over my soul, and I'm okay with that.
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