Wake Up And Smell The BS

Day 12: The meaning behind your blog url/title

It was a line I used to tell this classmate of mine who had her head in the clouds most of the time, adapted from the line "wake up and smell the roses". However, as I found roses to be too nice for the point to be put across, I told her to wake up and smell the bullshit. So because of that, whenever I wanted certain people to realise that the world doesn't revolve around them alone, and that a perfect world doesn't exist, I kept to using that line.

I guess I wanted to keep it real, so therefore I used it as my URL. It's a very good reminder to myself not to get my head too far up in the clouds or up my arse either.

The title, on the other hand, came about a while later, while trying to figure out what I wanted this blog to be about. I felt it wasn't to tell people off, or tell everyone to get real. Rather, the blog was a kind of release of tension, a kind of therapy for my own mental health. It didn't really come about as I was sipping on tea, but more on some plan (probably evil) that was bubbling in my head. At first "bubbling" felt too airy and so it ended up as brewing, which could also refer to the process of making coffee/tea - which I love.

Don't try to bother understanding what goes through my mind. Sometimes I don't even know really.