Finally! It took me 1 year, 6months, 23 days 3 hours and 15 minutes to finally have the guts to sit down, write and start my own blog. And inspiration can strike anytime, anywhere. In my case, at 3 o' clock in the morning at work looking after a very sick patient. So here goes nothing..
Au contraire, amidst the facebook updates, twitter posts and instagram shots.. I have always been a very private person, I may be wired, synced and logged- but I have been and always will remain a private person. As to why I choose to start my blog, well thats for me and you to eventually find out ( if I'm interesting enough) .
I have always loved the written art, literature, history, poetry..these things come easily to me, and I was never properly trained in the art of essay, blog, journal or just plain writing. But I managed to make use of my tenses and verbs and somehow I eventually made sense (well for me anyway). I can't remember how many childish stories I attempted growing up, and I never really thought about keeping them, but yes I had my fair share of fan fiction writing, poetry and yes even song writing ( Atot- my sister can attest to that.)
You see, I stumbled upon this self-development site online and the one life tip they gave that struck a chord with me at that exact moment was this: START YOUR OWN BLOG, MAKE YOURSELF HEARD and PUT IT OUT THERE.
So here I am, 28 years old (just! my birthday was two weeks ago) and I have finally decided to go ahead, bite the bullet and JUST DO IT.
I have been praying and asking God for guidance lately, WHERE DO YOU WANT ME? How can I be of use? WHAT IS MY PURPOSE? ( yes I am one of those people that tend to question a lot- Im sorry mother for the precocious 2year-old that was once me) Now, I realize that one can hardly call "BLOGGING" as ones' life's great purpose- but Im thru sitting back and waiting for God to figure it out for me. I have to actively participate in helping HIM help me find purpose. And then maybe, just maybe, I will eventually find myself.
To cap off, here's an excerpt about happiness and self- discovery from one of my favorite contemporary authors:
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
- Elizabeth Gilbert ( Eat, Pray, Love)
So here I am WORLD.. from the most mundane and trivial, to life's biggest hiccups.
Do your worst!
Do your worst!
