Circling Back To #DayOne
It is on this ordinary day that I begin blogging again. I had planned to give this new space and version of Sandhya’s Blog an unassuming beginning. I thought I would simply share the first piece, a review of Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, one that I finished reading only last weekend and on which I have already penned down my drifting thoughts without giving them a chance to get lost in the wind.
But, I’d probably like to begin by resetting the stopwatch and circling back to #DayOne, which shall hopefully keep reminding me why I write. In December 2019, a phase in the continuum that I remember mostly as the early onset of a pandemic, I started writing again after a break with a #DayOne wake-up call to myself. It turned out to be the very first of a year-long journey of reading and writing every day. Rather emotionally charged and brimming with self-reflection, I had written on that December day:
It makes me shudder to think of the second reason, because if you take writing away from me I’d sit wondering of what else I have.
True as it is, this is not another emotional start in the footsteps of ‘a post a day keeps the gloom away’. For this one, I took Maria’s advice- let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start. Today, I start from scratch in a new platform, fresh as a daisy. Blogging is not unfamiliar to me, yet this is as new as it gets.
Anyone who has read or followed the decade-old version of the blog would know that I wrote on anything in my head, from books to art to observations, and posts which rightfully deserve the honorary rank of timepass. I knew many who liked reading them as much as I loved writing them. However, in this newfangled phase, I plan to primarily write on the books I read and continue to build the beautiful repository on ‘what to read’. I also hope to put out my original pieces, writing experiments, and new learnings. I bring this new avatar to you, hoping to be different from the old one, only in ways that reflect my growth over the decade.
So, here I begin on a clean slate. Circling back to #DayOne, all that there is left to say is:
An optimistic Sandhya (do I see a faint smile on the ten-year old?), wrapping up with a smile, and looking forward to #Day2.