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That being said, I'm not saying I'd like to be you, Los. Just maybe have a cookout together or something. I've just put your family on my "If you could have anyone over for dinner list."
But I don't look at it like high school. We're adults and most of the time we're talking about Jesus. Are they jealous that you brought more of the lost to Christ? Sorry, can't do it brother.
I'm not competing with ya, I'm IN IT with ya and whatever WE can do, as an online COMMUNITY, to expand the Kingdom of God, I'm all over it. Anything else, I can do without.
“Success is sweet, but it’s secret is sweat.”
I love reading blogs of people who have "it" but I know "it" cost a lot and is a lot of hard work.
I appreciate you, thanks for not lashing yourself daily on here, it would get really old. :)
I follow lots of papercrafter blogs (hey, it's my thing). It is so easy to get wrapped up in wishing you are as talented as so and so. Had as much free time as so and so. Had the opportunities like so and so. Knew the people so and so knows. Had the expendable income so and so has. For a time I seriously struggled with that (and even now from time to time).
In the end I just had to delete a few blogs from my reader list and decide to be happy with myself and my talent. I had to accept that my style was different than others and that, just like in real life, I'm not exactly the most popular *wink*. I now watch blogs for what I can learn and how I can help.
Also, like has been said, I've realized the work that goes into a great crafting blog... and that with 2 preschoolers a blog is not my priority.
Thanks again Los. I need the reminder. It's about being the best me, not lusting over the best of someone else.
And somehow that is translated as life."
Great words!
But I know all of you and am jealous of your blog ranking. :) H
Los you have a sick blog, awesome community, you right some killer posts, and you have an awesome heart for God.
but you're not THAT cool.
;)
i wasn't that popular in highschool, and I'm not that popular in blogosphere either...neither fact defines me. glad to hear your popularity doesn't define you either.
your blog's great...keep up the good work.
I just remind myself that this is, after all, just blogging. Just online. And someday, if the internet dies, I'll still be me. And I'll still be loved.
Love the blog, Carlos. No hatin' here, friend.
and...
the words of the post are good, awesome. i'm that guy wanting to be better, and i'm learning how to go out and live my own life rather than wishing i was living someone elses, but...the one thing that i can't get thru my head is why is the 'r' in "Resistance" capitalized?
i may or may not lose sleep over this...
Okay, enough rambling. I am going to go out and better... not better than you, but better than I was yesterday. :)
But you ain't all THAT - and I think I'm hearing you say you know that. I mean here's a dude who shaves his head cuz he's balding and wears a hat on a day that he didn't have time to shave.
See? He's human - he has inadequacies like the rest of us. He may walk the line between cocky and confident (you're not THAT great of a storyteller) but he does know social marketing well - and like I said before - he stays transparent and that is what I love most about visiting this blog.
Ya know what you're gonna get when ya come here. You're gonna get honesty. Openness. Truth. Painful realizations. And THAT makes for compelling reading anytime (story telling, formatting and spelling/grammar check aside).
Thanks for the blog Los. I like it.
if you were not reading damn emails like those you could get time to reply to my question about music/worship ministry set up stuff! I suffer from jealousy in many areas of life but never in the blog stuff, i joke that i am jealous of you & others like you BUT its just me hiding behind a man crush & deep down i know that if i had the balls to do what you do i could also command an audience this large. In the meantime, i will continue to be inspired and wonder what your bicep feels like!
Reminds me of the CS Lewis quote "Aim mainly at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim mainly at earth and you get neither."
We could rewrite that "Aim for Jesus with your blog and you (may) get a high technorati ranking thrown in (but even if you don't, you get JESUS). Aim at a high technorati ranking with your blog and you get neither it nor Jesus, but just a blog that is bitter and attempts to hijack others' success."
Just my thoughts on the matter. Oh, and you all should check out my blog. It's cooler than Carlos'. (I couldn't help myself)
When I was in grade school, I used to be mad at my friends because they weren't the "cool" people I though I should hang out with.
I get jealous of our pastor because he is so wildly successful and I think I could be too.
I could be the creative writer, or the gifted teacher. I could hang out with the popular kids.
But then I read posts like this, and I am reminded that all of that is just a "chasing after the wind".
Thank you for reminding me that the only thing standing in my way is me.
wingnut
My job is cool.....but I'm not...and I'm just not that interesting....
When I see someone excel, I think: 'Wow, God is so awesome to create him/her with those amazing qualities!'
That is so horribly backwards.
Sometimes I like to imagine a church where people had no expectations except that Jesus will love us, God will Father us, and the Spirit will move, because I wonder if only then will I be able to stop this bullsh-t nonsense of comparing myself to other people and always being let down. And it's interesting that I have read and reread this comment twice now to make sure it sounds cool so that other people will read it and then want to read my stupid blog.
Erg.
Keep up the great work for HIM!!
It's Time (not the winans version)