Well. Here I am. Lately I’ve been reading a lot [of new books] rather than doing what I usually do (which is reading books that I’ve read before over and over and over again *ahem* Francine Rivers *ahem*). I’ve been branching out and digging some new material. In my search I came across Simply Tuesday by Emily Freeman and Wild and Free by Jess Connolly and Hayley Morgan. The new title for my thoughts here [Footnote Interactions] are from something that I took away from Simply Tuesday. Too often I find myself wrapped up in the most recent “emergency” in day to day life. And when I say too often, I mean basically everyday for the last year. And let me tell you, it’s exhausting.
I was a history major so I spent a lot of time reading a lot of really really boring books that always had a ton of footnotes. Truthfully, (not even kidding a little bit) the footnotes usually contained more interesting nuggets of information than the bulk of the material. The little, normally 1-2 sentence, snippets of information at the bottom of the page often made my time spent reading more meaningful than pages and pages worth of long words and impressive verbiage. Whenever I was reading for homework, the information I got from the footnotes were what I wanted to share with my friends, not the stuff in the main reading that everyone read and talked about. And that’s how I want my life to be. The long, drawn out days that never feel like they’re gonna end — the “headlines” or the main reading that everyone knows about and sees and focuses their day on — I want to read the footnotes throughout the day. I want to have meaningful interactions with people, enjoy life when the world is crazy, and make connections. This is why I want to live my life in the footnotes rather than the headlines. The headlines these days have more emotional, mental, physical turmoil and stress in them than any one person can handle. So lets band together and live in the footnotes.
Who wants to join me?
Footnote Interactions 