This weekend I have been making Facebook Pages for all of my
blogs, but especially sharing this one with more than my friends on Facebook
worries me. I started writing about my life as a single person back in 2007 (first post found here). Before
that I wrote a lot about my faith and life but hid that part of myself. I did
not like being that vulnerable to anyone, whether it was in person or online.
However, once I got the feeling that I could be single for a
while, I began to reconsider keeping it all to myself. I knew there would be
other people like me out there, singles who feel they have to keep up a front
and an image, to maintain that confidence. But honestly, sometimes keeping up
that image is extremely tiring and exhausting to me, I just want to be
myself... and I want people to like me for who I am; all the wonderful and not-so wonderful parts of myself.
So I started writing about myself. I kept all my writings
mostly on Facebook, what they call "Notes". Then, a year ago they
changed their privacy settings and many questions were brought up about who
owns my writing on their site. Additionally, I didn’t really feel I was
expressing myself all that well on Facebook as I could do on my own blog, which
would include my own style and design, as well as my words.
This blog I called "Single Me" based on a blog
(found here) I wrote about a year ago by the same name. Since then I have only
shared this blog with my own friends on Facebook (and only sometimes with
Family). A lot of the reason I haven’t made it public is anonymity, I really don’t
think everyone in my life needs to know all my business; my feelings about singleness
are personal. Still, I know there are those like me out there who long to
connect with someone else, to share life with another person, and who feel that
many times expressing those desires makes them seem insecure, whiny, and
desperate.
So, with my making of my Single Me Facebook Page and an
upgrade on this Single Me blog, I am now making this public. I would still like
to be anonymous if I can, mostly because I see no need for employers, ministry
or otherwise, to know all the details about my singleness or dating life, or
lack there of.
Please have a look around, leave some comments on my Single
Me Facebook Page - Like Share, and Invite others who might be interested. Feel
free to comment on & Subscribe to my Blog. I certainly appreciate your thoughts,
questions, and interest.
I know this is about me being single, but I also think those
who are married might find it interesting to get a glimpse of a male who is
single, who is also not a person who parties or someone trying to sow is royal oats, but
who loves Christ and seeks to serve Him foremost, but also wants to be honest
about his desires and feelings of being single in our culture (that includes
American and Christian/Church culture). I hope you will join me in this journey…or
continue if you have been with me so far…for however long or short it may be.
Blessings,
~ Daniel
Also, feel free to stop by another similar blog from a
female perspective:
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