I’ve been AWOL for a little while on here. It’s not because I didn’t have any ideas that I could put pen to paper (or in this case fingers to keyboard?). But I got caught up in my own mind. The mind is a powerful place. If you feed it with positivity or keep it engaged in different projects, it can achieve great things. The minute you let it slip, it can bring your entire world down. Something resembling the latter happened to me.

I got caught up in the hole of engagement. I started to care too much about who’s reading my blogs. Who’s liking the posts? Is it being shared? I think you get the picture. I forgot the purpose behind my blogs. First and foremost, it’s an avenue for me to ‘run free’. Talk about my travels, give suggestions and tips to people who are looking at travelling to places where I’ve set foot. If you use it great, if not, that’s perfectly okay too. Secondly, it’s practice for me. I still plan on writing a book, and now that I know exactly what the beginning, middle and end will be, I can kick start my fourth attempt at writing that book. Whether it will see the light of day that remains to be seen. Thirdly, this is an avenue for me to express myself.

I struggle to say or describe the things that have happened to me. I find it much easier to write. To me, it feels like, there’s nothing stopping me when I’m typing. I wish that could also be the case when I talk about things, but alas it is not. My mind gets in the way, when I’m trying to say something. I get critical about the things I’m saying, and my mind is constantly battling with what I should say next. It tries to direct my next sentence. But lately, I have found that, when I’m writing, or editing videos (I may or may not have gone and made some videos for TikTok), my mind shuts up. It’s like for those minutes, when I’m engaged in writing a blog, or editing a video, there is absolute silence in my mind. I can hear what I want to write, and edit and delete and add as I please.

So, here’s my attempt at writing again, and making videos again. Not all of them will be great, maybe none of them might be great. But at least, I’ve spent some time doing something I love and in that process got a little break from the constant chatter in my mind.