First Post - Why the need to write

Regularity

I have never been a regular blogger. I have not published many articles but I have certainly scribbled my thoughts on paper or in draft mode in the past decade or so.

In the past, I have taken up personal challenges to maintain a journal which have never lasted more than a week. The journal is soon forgotten and is often revisited during either a panic stricken invasion of the storeroom to look for an old/important/forgotten commodity or an even worse and tedious task of house movement! At that time the journal serves as a reminder of something I did without thinking too much. I'd have a laugh about the things I wrote, being amused by my thought process at the timestamped date and then quickly move on to the more stressful task at hand.

In this blog I want to make an attempt to write about things that I find meaningful and that matter to me on a day to day basis. Hopefully my T+10 year-old self will appreciate this as much as I do it now. We will know when we get to it!

Being honest with myself 

I've had a constant tussle understanding my feelings at any given point of time. Until few years back I did not even know what anxiety is and I'd be confused going through a stressful thought without having a practical reason to feel that way. This led me to hold things or people around me accountable for my state at that instance - there ought to be something or someone that is causing the distress, never actually looking inward. Perhaps this topic deserves it's own dedicated post. But the fact being I wasn't able to understand and consequently express myself truly. 

While my self-awareness has sky rocketed in the last few years, it demands a lot more work - one day at a time, one blogpost at a time.

Little things matter

What you are today is a function of little things from the past and present: millions of cells working and evolving every second, thoughts, nutrition, breathing, interactions, habits, focus, luck, actions and sometimes the lack of them, to name a few!

This blog is an effort to realise the importance of these little things more regularly!

Hope I can keep up!