A weird thing has happened since I started blogging: People have gotten the impression that my life is bizarre and/or uniquely interesting.
“You have the wildest adventures!” numerous readers have told me. “The weirdest things happen to you! Your life is fascinating! How do you attract so many crazy things?”
I still have not figured out the correct way to respond to these incorrect assumptions. So I just blush, stammer, and say something like “eh… hah.”
And although it makes me feel kind of good about myself that people think this, I am here today to come clean:
My life is average, average, average.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, my life is bizarre. Everything I write is true.
But that’s because LIFE is bizarre. Everybody’s is. I would bet triple the amount of my student loan debt that my life is not one bit weirder than yours, whoever you are, reading this right now.
I just have an eye for the absurd and the compulsion to write it down.
Beyond that, I can only think of two semi-legitimate reasons why my life might be slightly more interesting than someone chosen at random from a sampling of individuals who share my age, gender, geographical location, and SES.
- I’m a therapist, so I meet all kinds of people and hear all kinds of things. (But I don’t even get to share these stories because they’re protected by confidentiality- so none of you even know my craziest material).
- I tend to travel frequently. Weird things happen when you travel. Period. Anyone who travels is aware of this on some level. But do you know what drives me to travel in the first place? Boredom with my average life.
Mostly I just spend way too much time on Facebook, get incredibly anxious about everything, and occasionally watch Teen Mom.
I promise you that nobody who followed me around for a day or a week or a year would ever say anything like “OMG, Your life is so interesting!”
Instead, they would probably say things like:
“If you don’t get up from that futon once in a while you could get a blood clot.”
“Are you deep in thought or just watching the cats lick each other again?”
“You spend an unusual amount of time reflecting on the past.”
“Dude. Your job sucks.”
“Peanut butter for dinner again?”
“How many times a week do you have to get locked out of your accounts before you just start writing down your freaking passwords already?”
“I’m bored.”
“Its embarrassing how excited you get for The Bachelorette.”
“Surely you have something more pressing to do than look through the wedding album of someone you sort of knew five years ago?”
You get the picture.
So if I’ve made my life sound exceptionally interesting, then it’s a testament to how interesting even the most average of lives are.
Please know that if you want to find the weirdness/adventure/craziness/absurdity in your own life, you just have to look for it. It’s there. I promise. You either just haven’t been noticing, or haven’t been writing it down.
You really should display your “likes” (I don’t see them anywhere) as I’m sure you’re getting plenty of them. And I agree completely. Ordinary lives are amazing, and crazy, and weird, and some people (like you) just have a knack for finding all those crazy bits and writing about them. Thanks for the encouragement to start noticing 🙂
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Thanks Jennifer! And thanks for letting me know about the “likes” not showing. They show up for me so I assumed everyone could see them- I will look into that!
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Hee! I love this because it so reflects the life of a writer/blogger – we tune into what makes a great story, write it down, and boom the other 23 1/2 plain old hours of our day cease to be counted for. #LivingTheDream 🙂
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Thanks Galit!
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You are truly gifted at noticing the interesting details of life and then writing about them in a way that illuminate them for all of us! If I had been on that Greyhound I would have kept a blanket over my head and noticed nothing!
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People are always like, “You find yourself in the most bizarre yet hilarious situations!” – a statement that is only true like 3x a year. Next time someone says that to me, I’m linking them to this post! Loved it!
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Thanks! If something super interesting happens to me three times in a year… that’s a pretty good year.
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I must pay more attention to what is going on around me…I’m fairly good at photographing the bizarre, I just don’t blog about it.
That may be about to change. Thanks J-Bo.
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Maybe we could team up with our writing and photography and really bizarre-ify the world.
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I tend to put the odd pic up on Facebook – when I have time. Keep an eye out for them!
My blog tends towards the straightforward…
I’d love to collaborate writing-wise, but I’m not sure how that would work. Challenges to each other, perhaps?
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