It's been a while since I have been somewhere other than both of my parents home {Don't worry my parents are allowed to see both me and my sister} or let alone a single car go past.
This whole quarantine period of our lives sure has all of us in our thoughts. I spent a good hour ~ 2 hours writing down my thoughts and I realized how much is on my mind. I realized that I need to clear the bad things out of my life because most of my thought were past events that still to this day have a mental effect on me.
If you are feeling stressed or anything else that is making you not be yourself. Then I truly recommend you open a notebook or a document and write down your thoughts, maybe dedicate a whole entire doc or book to it and write down anything that happens during the day. Because I already can see myself feeling a lot better removing the things that were affecting me like toxic friendships or relationships. So please do consider writing down your thoughts once every day or so, because you can realize how much you think about these things. {Also, you can let out any emotion while doing so.}
I told myself as well about what issues with myself I had that was making me feel sad, mad or not myself. For example, I noticed how many fights I would get included in and how it affected me mentally, or how I had such a short temper. I told myself that I want to change myself, mentally I want to remove the toxic thoughts I give myself, the toxic friendships that truly affect me, and how I let them affect me. You don't have to do this but I chose to because I want to portray who I really want to become, not who I currently am. Because even though someone will give a smile and seem so positive like me, we on the inside could be hurting really bad. And it's always good to realize these things before it escalates.
Now onto what this blog post really was meant to be about, my work!
Recently I've been reading the book 'The Wizard of OZ' and it's truly a good book. My literacy teacher recently assigned us a task to create an art piece based on what I have seen or what I've read in the book. I noticed from what I've seen is Dorothy's Dress, and how simple it is. it beautiful don't get me wrong but I feel like it's not what it could be. I saw it's potential.
So for my simple art piece I spent basically an hour on I decided to redraw Dorothy's Dress in my style! Please let me know what you think of the dress!~ Any feedback will be noticed ^w^.
Hope you all are being healthy and staying safe! What have you been doing to keep yourself from going insane? I'd love to know ^^~ See you guys soon!~
Hi Tamzin. Wow- what a reflection! I have enjoyed reading your perspective of what it's like to be in lockdown. It certainly provides time to think about all sorts of things and ponder life. My advice is try and stay in the present. The past will always be there but maybe think what makes you happy and what you are thankful for. Your thinking is very mature and it's also great to acknowledge what you might not to work on to develop personally. Please also remember that you have so many great qualities.
ReplyDeleteNow... The Wizard of Oz. A great story. I like your dress. It suits the time period and I'm sure Dorothy would wear it. What program did you use to make this ?
Kia Ora Mr Tyson,
DeleteThank you for your feedback! I created the dress on a software called Ibs Paint X. It's a free drawing software where you can create anything your heart desires! And if you watch an ad, you can get access to all the brushes for up to 18 hours. I've used it before and it does the job pretty well :). I do understand that I have some great qualities and I do like to keep those, but I think I should start thinking about my mental headspace just that little more! I hope you are doing alright during these tough times. :3
~ Tamzin