Some days, we all get an itch to do something. To start on a new project, or to restart it. Bring it out of the ashes of neglect. Clear the dust and see what can be fixed and tinkered with.
And so it has been with this blog.
Some voice at the back of my mind questioned if this was a good idea. After all, it’s been years, and the previous blogs I tried to maintain ended up being forgotten. I still wonder how that happened - whether it was because felt I couldn’t fill it with my voice anymore. Whether I had anything left to say. Why start a new one only to scrap it if I come to that point again?
Recently, I’ve been cleaning out my files, and I found a folder marked “Blog”— created in 2018. That voice wasn’t a random occurrence. It was a constant desire waiting to be realized.
So, here we are. Another blog. A third attempt. Maybe, the one that will stick. Or maybe it won’t, but that’s alright. It’s also okay that I haven’t quite nailed down what the focus of this blog is, and I don’t think it matters — it never did matter before. All my previous blogs were a mixed pot of interests that I enjoyed sharing with the world, and it worked just fine.
It was how I stuck to blogging for so long. It’s what made me hone my writing voice. In those days (Lordy, how is it that I’m recalling the past with the phrase “in those days”), I remember the community of bloggers that congregated on the internet. Before there were influencers, there was just the simplicity of blog entries sharing personable, wonderfully human stories. In their voices, they recounted their daily lives, their unique perspectives filtered through to paint a full, lived experience, depicting their backgrounds. A quick search these days barely crops up any similar results of that bygone era.
I also felt like I received a sign when my dear friend Dina started blogging again. Dina and I have a history of blogging camaraderie between us, and one when stopped, it seemed the other lost steam as well. So it seemed appropriate that when one started again, the other would too.
So yes, I am blogging again for the sake of nostalgia. For the availability of a blank sounding board. For sharing the love of writing and stories, and travels and introspection whenever it strikes.
And if it gets lost in the vast algorithm of the internet, so be it.
Getting lost is part of the charm.