Sit-back Sunday: connections

Hello there! I felt like writing a book today, but since I’m leaving for Romania tomorrow (when this is up I will have been there for 2 days already!) I thought I’d write a blog-post instead. I hope you’re doing alright, has March been treating you well so far?

As I hope all of you know, and if not I will most definitely write something about it in the future, every November is National Novel Writing Month. I’ve tried to win NaNoWriMo three times now, and only finished one time, but the idea of last year’s entry is still stuck in my head. I’ve been thinking about it a lot again this week, so I thought, why not write a little philosophical post about it?! This is also a nice welcome to one of my new themes on this blog, Sit-back Sunday. I think it’s great to sometimes just sit back and look at all you've accomplished, or to appreciate all that live keeps in its dark hidden cupboards you keep forgetting to look in. All the little things in live are so beautiful, but sometimes you’re just too bust living it to actually enjoy it. So yes, Sit-back Sunday!

This Sunday I’d like to talk a bit about connections, because connections are such a weird but wonderful thing. With connections I mean the relationships you build all around you. It could be the connection you have with your dearest friend, or the connection you had for a couple of minutes with the person standing next to you in the bus. I think it’s amazing that we have this ability to feel a connection with someone, and to build up that connection in such a short period of time.

Depending on the situation, you can built a lifelong connection with a complete stranger in a matter of minutes. If you both experience something that will stick with you forever, like an accident or a unicorn appearing out of thin air, you will probably stay in touch and remember each other for a long time. It’s just mind blowing to think about how our brain works like that, how it can connect people to your feelings and your being in such a short time.

If you think about connections as glowing threats, working their way all around the world to connect you to every person you have a connection with, it’s crazy to think of how many threats there will be. There are connections everywhere! Some connections will be thick and strong, some will be fraying and about to snap, and some will still be weaving their way towards each other. Thinking about this, it’s hard to imagine that you sometimes feel alone, because you’re anything but. There will always be people who know you in some way or another, and if not, it only takes a couple of minutes to make a connection with someone.

Having connections and making connections is a concept that goes beyond my comprehensive ability. I can’t begin to understand how our minds recognise someone when you haven’t seen them in ages, or how your heart can surge when you see someone you were unknowingly craving to see. How a couple of nice words and touches can leave you breathless because they came from that person, and how others can make you cringe because they came from that other one. Our brain is such a fantastic organ, and so much is still unknown about it,  it gobbles me. The fact that I’m thinking about all these amazing abilities that I can’t even comprehend, while it’s my own brain doing it, I just.. Humans are quite amazing.

So yeah, enough rambling about connections for now. I really think I should continue that NaNoWriMo draft I made last November.. It was all about connections, and how they can either make you or break you, depending on what kind of connections you make. I will, when I finally have the time to actually write more that these short blogposts, haha!

I hope you enjoyed this little wander into my mind. Feel free to leave your own ponderings down below, I’d love to read what you think of this subject!

Stay true to who you are, I will see you very soon!

Jane xxxx