It took a pandemic for me to resume blogging...
The last time I wrote, I was 18 years old, sharing some of my very random, late night musings. Today, I’m almost 21, in the final year of my med school, at home because my college shut down and in the middle of what seems to be called “The worst year ever” (insert cries of everyone comfortably at home and cribbing). It’s time to break this very long hiatus (it’s not as if you were waiting though).
Sometimes when people talk of something from the past, they say, “Oh, wasn’t it just yesterday when...” or “I can’t believe it was 5 years ago”. However, when I look at the posts on this blog (even the ones from 2017), I feel as if eons have passed. There is a stark difference between the 18 year old version of me and what I am today. The change may not be apparent on my blog because I definitely still write like a 13 year old. But that was never the point of this blog, was it?
I started writing years ago when my aunt told me about the whole concept of blogging. Back then, I was a little kid, posting every random thing that comes to my mind, looking for appreciation from my 20 odd readers which included my family, friends and some random strangers who somehow managed to stumble across my posts. Some things never change, do they?
I named my blog Life is Beautiful because there can only be so much creativity in a child and also because I loved the movie that goes by the same name(or La vita รจ bella). I remember seeing it with my father on one lazy Saturday afternoon when he was at home. Back then he would have his Saturdays off. So while mom would go to work, we’d watch movies, visit parks and create a mess in the house.
(Also if you haven’t seen it already, please do!)
I know it’s not a very easy name for a blog for a variety of reasons. And no, I’m not sorry for being a naive teenager. Also, it’s not like a lot of people were blogging back then. There were no guides on “How to run a blog and gain readers” and even if there was, I was clearly oblivious to its existence. Today, I believe, there’s an app for Blogger as well. I’m still using the good old fashioned browser for “penning” this down.
So, I decided to visit my blog by pure chance. And started writing without any agenda or any fixed idea (and I wonder why this blog didn’t become famous in 2012). But like I mentioned before, as a kid, I didn’t really expect this blog to become a “thing”. I used to write because I felt like putting my thoughts out there. And even if not a lot of people come and see it, at least I can come down every once in a while and wince when I look at the whole load of baloney I wrote years ago. Haha! To be fair, it’s good to come back and see how we’ve evolved and grown. And while I might be criticising this piece 5 years down the line, I’m glad I’m creating something to reminisce about old days.
I hope I’ll be writing more in the coming weeks.
Ciao, for now!
The last time I wrote, I was 18 years old, sharing some of my very random, late night musings. Today, I’m almost 21, in the final year of my med school, at home because my college shut down and in the middle of what seems to be called “The worst year ever” (insert cries of everyone comfortably at home and cribbing). It’s time to break this very long hiatus (it’s not as if you were waiting though).
Sometimes when people talk of something from the past, they say, “Oh, wasn’t it just yesterday when...” or “I can’t believe it was 5 years ago”. However, when I look at the posts on this blog (even the ones from 2017), I feel as if eons have passed. There is a stark difference between the 18 year old version of me and what I am today. The change may not be apparent on my blog because I definitely still write like a 13 year old. But that was never the point of this blog, was it?
I started writing years ago when my aunt told me about the whole concept of blogging. Back then, I was a little kid, posting every random thing that comes to my mind, looking for appreciation from my 20 odd readers which included my family, friends and some random strangers who somehow managed to stumble across my posts. Some things never change, do they?
I named my blog Life is Beautiful because there can only be so much creativity in a child and also because I loved the movie that goes by the same name(or La vita รจ bella). I remember seeing it with my father on one lazy Saturday afternoon when he was at home. Back then he would have his Saturdays off. So while mom would go to work, we’d watch movies, visit parks and create a mess in the house.
(Also if you haven’t seen it already, please do!)
I know it’s not a very easy name for a blog for a variety of reasons. And no, I’m not sorry for being a naive teenager. Also, it’s not like a lot of people were blogging back then. There were no guides on “How to run a blog and gain readers” and even if there was, I was clearly oblivious to its existence. Today, I believe, there’s an app for Blogger as well. I’m still using the good old fashioned browser for “penning” this down.
So, I decided to visit my blog by pure chance. And started writing without any agenda or any fixed idea (and I wonder why this blog didn’t become famous in 2012). But like I mentioned before, as a kid, I didn’t really expect this blog to become a “thing”. I used to write because I felt like putting my thoughts out there. And even if not a lot of people come and see it, at least I can come down every once in a while and wince when I look at the whole load of baloney I wrote years ago. Haha! To be fair, it’s good to come back and see how we’ve evolved and grown. And while I might be criticising this piece 5 years down the line, I’m glad I’m creating something to reminisce about old days.
I hope I’ll be writing more in the coming weeks.
Ciao, for now!
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