Harder Than I Want It To Be
I'm trying something new, and I've cried a lot.
10/4/20251 min read
The picture in this heading took me two hours to complete. It wasn't because I designed it with precision and thoughtfulness. It wasn't because I had an idea in mind and just wanted to do my best to make that idea a reality. It wasn't even because my kids kept interrupting me. (Where are my kids, anyway?)
It was because I just don't know how to use my apps. Things go deleted and rearranged and then published, but I don't know where it got published. I've looked. Believe me. I've cried and gone to my kids begging them to teach me how to use Instagram again, because they've already taught me so many times.
This is hard. I am failing at things that are supposed to be intuitive and easy. Posting on Instagram or Facebook should be easy. Facebook is my generation's thing! When did I get so old?
I know all this is a learning curve, and I have to plunge in for it to become easier. The thing that will never become easy for me is making mistakes for everyone to see. So this is a post to remind me, that really...
Nobody's looking.
(But if you are, send me some love... because this is embarrassing.