#553 12 years of blogging and sharing my stories

 12 years of blogging and sharing my stories

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The month of March holds a lot of significance in my life. As the title suggests, this is the day I started publishing my articles/poems 12 years ago, and I am still doing the same. I also celebrated my marriage anniversary at the beginning of this month. Something unfortunate happened a week after our anniversary, and it will be etched in my heart forever.

 

I always looked forward to this day every year and would schedule a post in advance, but all these things didn’t seem to excite me this year. I’m grieving from personal loss and recovering from it; both physically and emotionally. Life has a different way of surprising us, and not all surprises are always pleasant, and we can do nothing about it making you wonder how life can be so cruel when you’ve always tried to do what’s right.

 

12 years is a long time; that’s more than twice my years of marriage. A lot happened in those 12 years; mostly good events but also some unexpectedly unfortunate events too and in all these years, I realized how unpredictable results in life could be! There’s a higher power that controls the outcome; reminding us to be more grateful when things go all right because those things could’ve gone wrong too.

 

This blog always gave me a reason to celebrate each day. It became my online diary; something that’s there to treasure my written words without any judgment. I don’t care about readership now. This blog has always been so special to me as it never made me worry about the presence of a special someone to make me feel special. Writing my heart out without the feeling of being judged is the best feeling that I can ever experience.

 

As I write this post, I am writing with a sense of stoicism, I am neither trying to reflect too much on years of my literary journey, life, or anything particular nor forcing myself too much to feel those emotions that I used to have every year when I wrote bloganniversary post. This time, it’s different and it need not have to be the same every year. I must accept it.

 

I don’t know what inspiration I can offer to my readers through this post, at this moment, but I can guarantee you to get inspired by our previous posts which we wrote with a lot of energy, enthusiasm, and optimism. Even I will try to get back to those posts to motivate myself to get back to my old form and make this process of healing a little bit easier.

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30.03.2025

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P.S.: This was the first post that I published on this day, exactly 12 years ago.

#423 8 years of musings and reflections

                         

8 years of musings and reflections

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    It’s absolutely a thrilling experience to share this day with you all when our blog turns 8 years old. It is no different from witnessing your baby growing into a matured one and learning through its own experiences. It’s like an act of introspecting my own thoughts all over these years. I must say, it has been a hell of an experience and many more to experience in days to come! So, this post is going to be a contemplative one. 8 years are long- isn’t it? To be honest, it’s the only thing that I have clung to, over these years.

 

What a coincidence to share my biggest day falling in this month as well! So March has definitely got some of my favorite and interesting episodes of my life to look forward to, each year.  On 4^th of this month; in March, I completed a year of togetherness with someone whom I just met a year back and Cupid conspired us to be with each other before Corona put everyone within the confines of their four walls. Life has its own timing and plans which no one is able to decipher accurately.

 

About my journey of writing, I was not so regular in this platform, I must admit, but it, in no way, implies that I gave up on this activity; writing. I was always writing on one or the other platform; either on digital media; online or with a pen over a piece of paper and experimenting with different forms of writing to express myself better. Sometimes, I seriously get stuck about the topics to write, you know, that’s writer’s block which every writer faces when he goes out of prompts to write about. This year, I am serious about reading as much as I can and make myself comfortable about the topics which have been obscure to me. I hope reading can be one of the ways to tackle writer’s block. Another resolution of this year is to meditate as much as I can so as to organize several thoughts to enhance my creativity. Of course, there are a lot of goals for me to achieve in the professional front as well.     

            People mature with their age and experience. For me, it has been a bit opposite. I feel the graph of maturity seems to be inversely proportional with age, in my case. I am still figuring out the real purpose of my life; the reason of my existence. I am still figuring out different options to advance my career. I am still figuring out the ways to accomplish my bucket list which I created a year ago. Among all these confusions, episodes of rise and fall, I did really learn to control my emotions in a better way. I have again started to dream like I used to and believe the possibility of my thoughts as no goal is difficult to achieve once you’ve decided firmly to achieve it.

            My heartfelt gratitude to the almighty for helping me to find my soulmate and a lovely family who have accepted me as part of their family with so much love and care that I always make myself feel pampered. What can I ask God more than to have a partner who shares similar goals, aspirations and supports me to achieve them. I really apologize to God for the days when I felt ungrateful, unloved, or underconfident in spite of having everything in my life.

            My vision associated with this blog still remains intact; to write to inspire people or create a change in their lives.  May I get experiences ordained by the almighty to derive wisdom to put them in my writing.

            Thanks to all readers for constantly supporting me in an unconditional way.  I couldn’t have gone so far without your words of appreciation. I always look forward to your feedback for my improvement.

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Swati Sarangi

25.03.2021