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I Could Never Live Without It!

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Photo Source:https://pixabay.com/illustrations/social-social-networks-1206612/ Or so I thought. A month ago (as of this writing), I made an impulsive decision to remove two giant time eaters in my life - instagram and facebook. My reason for doing so was so silly (sorry, Schatz!) that I still laugh at myself for doing it - but on the hindsight, I felt a great relief. I've always found myself many times during the day scrolling through my newsfeed. While I know it wasn't healthy, I kept doing so. In fact, I even convince myself that it was useful to waste my time in mindless scrolling just in case I find something useful and interesting . For what? I don't know. It's not really a great revelation, but there's a truism surrounding the use of social media and how people's unregulated usage of it is unhealthy. What surprises me the most is why I consciously choose to ignore this message of regulation and swept it under the rug. Thinking about how much tim

Writing is Therapeutic But...

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It was 2:30 in the morning and I'm unable to sleep. I sat on my bed not knowing what to do, so I grabbed a pen and a notepad and started scribbling down how I felt. I inhaled deeply and exhaled slowly and started to scribble - and just like that, my hand wrote words my mind was telling it to. In that moment, I wasn't fully in charged of what I was writing, what I mean to say is that I am not fully conscious nor mindful of what I wrote. I just write.  This gave me a cathartic feeling after I poured my emotions and what I thought into writing. Many times I have thought of beautiful and interesting concepts and topics to write on my blog. But, the thing is that when I begin writing, I become more focused on the grammar, concentrating on whether I sound good, and whether or not I am making the point I want to bring across to my readers. I am constantly distracted by the fact that my articles need to have plenty of viewers, and to do that, I need to do a good job in writing it