![]() I won't mind! If you're freaking out wondering how the blog will change, I don't even know if it will. If you're a zippy little car who is annoyed by Brave me, feel free to pass me at 70 and move along. Maybe the first two won't either, but either way I want more out of this blog than what it is now. Okay I don't think that last one will happen. ![]() Or maybe I'll start blogging about novelty coasters from bars around the world and everyone will think I've gone totally Amanda Bynes on the blogosphere. If I lose so many followers that I can no longer blog full time, so be it! Or maybe I'll end up starting a brick and mortar business and no longer have time to blog full time. ![]() I don't want to lose followers, but I'm at a point where I don't care. A Chevelle trying to be a Ford Taurus is the same as a Brave trying to be a Mini Cooper. Either way, it takes courage to realize who you are and what you need in order to live your life the best way you can. Maybe you're a VW Bug! Maybe you're a Semi. Which is appropriate, because I feel like it takes courage to be yourself in a world that is desperately trying to make us all mid-size sedans. If you're still tracking with me, sweet.Īll that being said (and hopefully understood), I want to be more Brave. While I think that not being offensive and avoiding trolls is a good thing, as well as advertisers (if you're full time blogging, you've gotta eat!), there's also something to be said about throwing off all that expectation and saying, "I'm a Brave! I'm big and slow and maybe I'll annoy you zippy little cars who are going 70mph when I can only go 50, but I'm me and I can only be the best Brave, not a terrible imitation of a Mini Cooper." Okay maybe I lost you on the Brave/tiny car analogy. And even without advertising as a consideration, bloggers typically don't want to alienate lots of people or say something that will draw out trolls or offend readers. You want to appeal to lots of people so you can gain followers, so you can in turn show potential sponsors that they'll get lots of exposure. In a lot of ways blogging ties into that. Worrying what other people think about things that I just am. Trying to do or be things that I can't because I'm not built that way. Prius she is not, and she has the gas mileage to prove it.īut I realized that a lot of times I go through life thinking I'm a Prius (or trying to act like it) when I'm a Brave. We don't expect semi trucks to drive like a Prius because we know they simply cannot. So instead of worrying what everyone was thinking about us, I decided to accept that we were slow and bulky, and to realize that other drivers also needed to realize that, and act accordingly. In a way, I have to be a selfish driver, even obnoxious, because there's simply no other way to drive a vehicle that goes 55mph on highways and needs 50 feet of merging space. Usually when I drive I'm hyperaware of other drivers, trying to be conscientious of where they're going and what they're doing, but in the Brave I can't really do much about being slow, or needing a lot of room. ![]() I can't accelerate very quickly, I can't merge unless there's a large space available, and I'm generally slow, even getting passed by semi trucks going uphill. Driving around among regular cars can be stressful in a bigger rig. She's big and slow, she needs a lot of room to make any moves, but she's reliable and sturdy, and cute in a quirky way. I've only been home for a couple hours and all my thoughts have already begun to fall back into their regular patterns, though I'm fighting to hold on to the lessons of the road, as taught by a wise, old mentor.įor an inanimate object, she teaches me a lot. I don't have a working radio, so it's lots of silence (or, rather, lots of loud road/engine noise) and my brain has all the time in the world to think and reevaluate life. Long trips in the Brave always get me thinking.
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