Five Minute Friday Forgotten again!

I forgot Five Minute Friday again! :( But I'm going to do it anyway, because I like the writing for five minutes, no editing thing. :) Do you want to do it too? Here are the "rules." The jist: write for five minutes on the given topic and don't edit it! Don't worry if it doesn't sound smooth. Just write!

And yesterday's topic was Ordinary. (I didn't actually have time yesterday anyway, but I'm still sad I forgot. But it's ok. This is my blog, I can write a day late :) )

Ordinary. and go.

I've been thinking about ordinary a lot recently. I've been in lots of situations and places where we share our stories, our hearts. I downplay my story a lot because it is not exciting. It is ordinary. (which technically I suppose it is not because that is a subjective word, like normal. What is normal or ordinary for me is not at all for you... yada yada.) But for me, my life has been ordinary. No traumatic events... I am thankful for that! But when I'm trying to explain to people why I am this way, there's no way to explain. "so um... I grew up in a house, with two parents and some siblings... I had a good life, nothing traumatic ever happened..." Everything that shaped me was internal, not external. Well not everything, I watched my sisters go through magnificent things that shaped my views a lot. But pretty low-key. A few weeks ago someone told me not to downplay my quiet life. She learned through subtlety, she said. The ordinary. I suppose it is needed, I suppose some of us have to hold down the normal. Like I said, I'm thankful for my life. I am. I still want to find some extraordinary in there somewhere though. I know, God makes my life extraordinary. But you know? I want some adventure!

stop.

(I know, adventure will come. But my five minute friday is not going to be smooth and put together, it's going to be what's on my mind. And that is on my mind.)

loves