It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on a serious term. I’ve had some auto-posts that I’ve been keeping but nothing too personal. How has everyone been? I guess you can say I’ve been busy. I’m mostly tired. It gets a bit too hot to do anything here at times. I guess you can say I’m back on the path of wanting to do so many things and not knowing where to start. I hate it when these random bursts of creativity come and take over my life. At the same time I quite love it.
I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. I do recommend it to everyone. I guess it’s an eye-opening book. One of those stories that really make you think about everything you’ve been through. I question the secrets my family members withhold, and I wonder about them daily. If I can find the movie, I’ll watch it tonight! I’m currently reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, which coincidentally has a movie as well. I’ve been trying to read this book for years so I’m glad to finally caught a copy. I guess you’re wondering what these books have anything to do with my blog. In all honesty, they have nothing to do with it. I just enjoy speaking about the books I’ve read.
However, my fiance is currently reading Bliss: Writing to Find Your True Self by Kathrine Ramsland. I’m not a big fan of books that try to tell me about myself. I guess it’s because I’m stubborn and don’t like others to know more about me than I know myself. I envy the ability some people have to know more about me within a few years of co-existing with me, than I know of myself. I confuse myself.
The book is basically (from what he’s read to me so far) explaining ways to find your true bliss. Your bliss is the thing you enjoy doing in life that makes you happy. It brings you the ultimate bliss. As I sit and listen to David read random excerpts from the book, I realize something. I have many things that truly make me happy, which all can co-exist in a single multi-functional career.
I’ve been into arts for years. I would write and illustrate my own short stories. I would write pages of literature. I wrote two novels before age sixteen (granted, they probably aren’t any good.). I had sketchbooks and notebooks full of my work. I would spend hours examining things and learning new ways to be inspired. I found inspiration in television, books, magazines, nature, fashion, and just about anything I gazed upon. At a young age, I studied the highest names in fashion and interior design. I would have my mother bring home interior design magazines that I would read from cover to cover.
I guess I’ll skip the entire history lesson, and just get to the basics. I love designing and every aspect of it. I love product design, graphic design, web design, fashion design, and interior design. I’m not too good at technology design but I could probably get into it if I tried. I guess I meant to be a multi-level designer, if this book is speaking some sort of truth. I’m not going to give up my dreams of fulfilling these goals. I’m already doing two of these full time, and I’m studying more on interior design as we speak.
What is your bliss? Have you discovered it yet?
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Oooh i have to check this book out! I love reading more than anything… so I think my bliss would be a good book!
Cheers, dahlin!
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I’m definitely putting that book on my to-read list. It sounds like something I would really enjoy. The Kite Runner has also been on my list for ages. So many people have highly recommended it to me. I even had it in my hand in a bookstore ready to buy it once and got distracted by something else and later regretted it. Ahh!
My bliss in life is music. More specifically, singing. When I sing, everything else seems to make sense. I am truly happy.
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I’ve been trying to get through The Kite Runner but I always end up giving up reading it. It’s very heavy to read. When I make it to chapter 4, I lay it aside to start reading another book. Stupid, I know. Everybody says that it’s so good.
I scrolled down on your front page before I read this post. I didn’t read any of the other but I saw pictures. Did you make those? Cause they are extremely good. I wish I was that good.
My bliss is web(webdesign, coding and so on). I love it ’cause I taught myself to do all those things. It’s the one thing I could happily be working with, all my life.
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I guess my bliss is art too, either as a filmmaker, a writer, a designer, anything that I can get creative with I can and do.
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I have heard and seen the cover of the Kite Runner. It looked lovely but as they say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
I have read the Joy Luck Club; it’s great. It was a while ago that I read the book though. The Kitchen God’s Wife, also by Amy Tan, was one of the more recent ones I read – I think I found it quite bittersweet; it was a great read.
I haven’t found my bliss, I guess. I love working with websites and it’s probably my greatest and longest lasting hobby though.
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I was reading this one book called “Life Vision, Soul Mission”. Its a good book because it motivates you and riles you up but then it started to piss me off. I was mad that I wasn’t doing what it said I should be doing. But books like that are a double-edged sword I guess, if you get pissed off it means you’ve been standing in one place too long.
I think I’ve just recently discovered or rather, rediscovered my bliss, which is writing.
It looks like I have two, possibly three, more books to add to my reading list…a list that never seems to get any shorter. But as for finding my bliss, I still haven’t discovered it yet. Nothing that I am ‘considered to be good’ at, makes me happy…so I’ll have to keep searching. :smile:
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Blogging about books are great. You can share somthing with people which has touched you a lot.
I haven’t read any of those books, I must say I have avoided the Kite runner due to all it’s publicity but one day i shall read and it and love it for sure. :-)
That book bliss will now be placed on my book list for it sounds absolutly wonderful, I must say. I haven’t read in quite a while, I have spurts of hardcore reading then take like a month’s holiday away from it all. :-)
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Nope, I haven’t found my bliss just yet. Every time I think I’ve found something that I really like doing, something else of interest comes along. I’ve even changed my major for college to something else, again.
I guess it just takes people a while to figure out what they want to do and what really sticks to them. I keep bouncing back and forward with graphic design.
I’ve been trying to find books to read just for fun and those books you suggested sound interesting so I may pick those up as well. =)