Jan. 8: One Word (Journaling Challenge)

Thanks for this challenge !

 

Mine: I'm a reader can't live without reading ;-)

 

Here's mine:

 

Persistent
in progress

by Paislee Press

 

Seeking is my one word for this challenge. I know that I will never stop seeking in my lifetime on this earth.

 

I was going for "determined" but my husband suggested "driven," which in the end meant I could scrap about my new truck.

 

Here's mine:

 

OK, this one took me a while. To be honest, I hate labels, I fight against them, he he. In my journaling I talk about how when someone tries to label me I tend to behave in the opposite (even if it is against my nature) just to spite them. So needless to say it was hard to choose one word to describe myself - but then hubby reminded me of some words (he is a nerdy linguist and has nerdy linguist friends who make beautiful nerdy linguist art out of words: here http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/ take a look)

Anyway, he pointed out this word, and I have to agree - this fits me. Here is a video that defines it:

I see this as positive (though I understand not everyone would) because I have been soul searching my whole life and I feel like I really know who I am even if no one else does (and there are some who really do). I feel like that has lead me to not HAVE to fit in, but to instead be willing to just be me, and to be OK with that (only took 35 years what!) so anyway - there you go! Here is my page to go with it.



Some of the journaling is covered, but this is what it says.
Lutalica: The idea that you don’t fit in anywhere, that no one truly knows the real you.
“When you were born they put you in a little box and slapped a label on it. But if we begin to notice these categories no longer fit us, maybe it’ll mean that we’ve finally arrived—just unpacking the boxes, making ourselves at home.”

I’ll be honest, I hate Labels. Anytime someone tries to label me I end up acting in the opposite manner just to spite them. It makes me chuckle for some reason. I think this is all due in a large part to the fact that I never really feel like I fit into categories. I am too eclectic and ever changing. I like to try new things out and see how they feel, only to shift and adapt them to fit me specifically. I think this is a big reason why I have traveled the world, why I have lived in so many houses, cities and even countries. I don’t really fit in anywhere and yet, I fit in everywhere. Or I can. I guess deep down I really just want to be seen for me, not because I am a woman, or a mother, or a teacher, or an artist. I want to be seen for the mixture of all that and how it makes me unique. This might come in part to my introverted nature too. I never really felt the need to fit in to a group or category. Me, myself, and I was enough. But then, I do have my little family, and I do so fit in here. I find it funny how that is seen in my artwork and my scrapping. I can’t stick to one thing. I have to mix it all up. There are too many flavors out there to enjoy to just spend my life eating vanilla.

 

This one was hard.

 

Kit Highlight Reel by Bella Gypsy
Template was a blog freebie by Scrapping with Liz called SwL_SOFebBlogChallengeTemp

 

Such a lot of wonderful pages - wow - here is mine:
Journaling translated from Danish to Google-English

JOY
I feel great joy every time my grandchildren come to visit.
And they do luckily often.
Spilopmageren (funny boy) Romeo - and lovely smiling Madeleine.
In just two days they come to visit Again.

And now I see that Google missed one Word - well Im tired right now - I'll look it up later.