I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about this blog. I've been skeptical for awhile about using this space as a means to simply express my thoughts. It's been strictly business...announcements and pictures of my creations. I have thrown in a little bit of me and my excitement for what I'm doing but I was and am still afraid of giving an unprofessional image of myself. Every time I made a post in the past, I worried about my language and about having enough high quality photographs. I really want to become successful with my at home business and I want to do things that will get me to that goal. But I am not some corporate company who is marketing a specific superficial image, and I am certainly no machine pumping out goods. I have a personality and so many thoughts that I want to share with the world along side my product. I wish to be seen and to be heard.
Beyond my fear of becoming a business first and a person second is my fear of the Internet in general. This is one I can blame my parents for. When I was young, the Internet was still fairly young. My mom knew almost nothing about using it. She learned mostly from my dad. Now my dad worked with computers for a living, doing computer programing and I'm sure, dealing with high securities. It was for the government after all. (Side note: We will come back to the government topic later.) It makes sense that he would take some of the same precautions with the home computer, but it was more than that. Just as I had been told at a very young age, "Don't talk to strangers," I heard don't talk to people on the Internet. Don't give out any personal information. You never know what crazies could be out there. OK, yes it may be true that there are some strange people in this world, but I think that is no reason to completely restrict oneself. And I'm talking about having very restricted Internet access even all the way through high school. I was given an e-mail account. Nothing else. Maybe the occasional hour or so to research for a school project. But most times I was told to use our encyclopedia set from the 80's. And what kid from our generation e-mails their friends??? Alright, now I'm just ranting. But that's what I need, a place to rant and to form discussions. To speak my mind. And if it's going to be about me, I'm bound to write some personal information hidden withing my personal thoughts. So be it if someone "crazy" comes across my blog and gets interested. I'm sure they're just people craving conversation and human interaction just like the rest of us.
So without further ado, welcome to the mind behind "Create Peace." May you all have a happy and peaceful day.
Danielle
Create Peace
