#lettertotumblr

[morselsofmylife-blog]

Recessive genes

Dear tumblr,

I got this urge of writing my thoughts here tonight. Because frankly, I know no one would believe me when I would rant about it. (Deep sigh)

I just feel so disappointed of my ability to write. I suck! I'm a disgrace! Being a daughter and a sister of writers, debaters and composers where do I belong in the family? So am I the joke? (Deep sigh)

Deep sigh

Deep sigh

Deep sigh

kjo

[polkadotkat]

Not specializing: an apology to tumblr

Dear tumblr,

Since I decided to try and post on her more often I have found it incredibly difficult to get started for one main reason:  I have been holding back on you, tumblr. I write things ALL THE TIME, but I hold them back from you. I am afraid of what I put out on the internet just in case something happens and I want to tailor myself to be more "me."

tumblr, I've been treating you like a new friend. I have been acting like I am afraid that you are too cool for me, and that if I revealed some of the dorky or quirky interests I have (like my religion, or my politics, or teaching philosophy, or calligraphy attempts) you would shun me, never to be interested again.

tumblr, I have believed the lies my society has told me my whole life. I have been propagating those untruths in my own mind, telling myself that it is too risky to be me on the internet. Thinking that until I have built a following I can't be totally me. As if temporarily I have to be some 2-dimensional projection of me...

Ironically, this fear never extended into my life as a teenage blogger. I was completely confident in my quirks being welcome on the internet as a teenager, because I knew only teenagers would read it, and the ones that would stay were awesome, and the ones that didn't were dumb anyway. Now there are these thoughts in my head that say that someone important (whatever that means...) could find this blog and determine my future. Like what? offer me a job? I have a job (ish?) and I really like working where I do. If they wanted to endow my department with more money to hire me I'd support that, but otherwise, how could these important people of the internet really change the course of my life? I'm not a specialist, performer, musician, artist, or whatever, so it's not like I'm going to be displaying my life's work on tumblr (sure, writing is something I do and it's "work" in some sense, but I'm not paid to write and I doubt I will be any time soon). I am just putting out a little bit of me here and there, tumblr, whether you like it or not.

And I do hope you like me, just like anyone would. If you don't, tumblr, it's OK. I think I can still like you enough for both of us.

Love,

Nora

[thoughtsfromaconfusedbrain]

Hi tumblr my dear old friend, what have you been up to lately? Me? I've been busy living, my new job is wonderful, I comute 4h a day, but it's so worth it! I found my happy place again, even though I still have my troubles, life is great. The sun is shining and there is a smile on my face. There is so much I'm greatful for, and there is so much I have accepted. I've missed you but to find my happy place I needed to leave the internet for awhile. But I'm back now, back to enjoy some wonderful times with you. Love Mika

[hiddenandinvisible]

My letter to Tumblr

Dear Tunblr.

Why are you so addictive, You are making me loose my social life. To be honest, I didn't have much of a social life to begin with. Also, why does the banner thing have to be so difficult! Why can't it be easy. I have been wasting 2 hours just trying to work it out. My brain will impload. To conclude, I love you, don't change

Yours,

justanaveragejack

<3 xxx

[yooadriennee]

Tumblr.

Dear Tumblr., First things first, I love you. Even though our friendship has been pretty brief, you drag me through some serious shit. Like when you fill my dashboard up with insanely funny posts, videos, and music, you always persuade me to keep looking for other posts that are just as funny. This creates a problem, the problem being that i spend too much time with you. Tumblr., you allow me to use you to my heart's content, but I feel that sometimes you never say no. You don't have a backbone, Tumblr. I'd really appreciate it if you would let me share more music with the world considering when I do have music to share, I find that one song upload per day is not sufficient. You know, there are some great songs out there which I will never share because of a single upload rule. Tragic, actually. Please, Tumblr., stop being such a great friend to me.

Thank you.