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Ready for your interview? #FestivalOfWords #writebravely

09 Wednesday Aug 2017

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Today is the 6th day of Write Tribe’s Festival of Words and the prompt is ‘Feature a guest – a guest post / an interview’. So why don’t you, my reader, be my guest? Pull up a chair and get comfortable as I interview you right here, right now. Answer in the comment section, Okay?

Sounds fun?

Okay, so it isn’t going to be an interview in the conventional sense. Let’s do a lightning round of questions. Try to give short answers. Does that sound doable?

Shall we start then? Ready?

Here you go..

  1. Favorite food?
  2. What/Who do you miss at this moment?
  3. How is your day going?
  4. As a child what did you want to become when you grow up?
  5. What did you become as a grown up?
  6. Favorite season?
  7. Movie or music?
  8. Journey or destination?
  9. In one word, what is life to you?
  10. In your opinion, which celebrity is having a crush on you?
  11. One word to describe Void Thoughts?

Go on, answer. I am waiting.

I am participating in the 7-day Festival of Words hosted by Write Tribe. 

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Why do I blog? #NaBloPoMo #NaBloPoMo15

05 Thursday Nov 2015

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Blogging is an outlet for my trapped in thoughts which suffocate me if I don’t let it out. It is easier to put pen to the paper for me than talking to somebody about all the thoughts that lurk inside me. All I need is a paper and pen or the laptop.

I blog to string together words to name the emotion that steals my soul, snooping the depth of my mind, turning me into a sensitive being unable to share how I feel with another human being. I find it easier to hide behind written words as they take the lead and take me out of that tunnel where I get lost. Scared and lonely I am at those times, and the keystrokes keep me company, making sure that I am not scared, not lonely, anymore. I feel loved.

A poem lets me express my sorrows and insecurities better and I don’t worry that if I get misunderstood when words get all intertwined. I love getting lost in words like that. I love to read the feelings which made me feel low and blue, tackled by words like that. I feel refreshed.

Fictional stories exploring my imagination taking me to a different world, even momentarily, helping me in creating that world before the reader, I do feel powerful during those times.

Stories from my personal life, by sharing them I share my world with you. My happiness doubles when I share a positive story and my sorrows halves if it is one of those not so happy stories.

The interaction through blogging is the greater reward. Comments, friendships, support, all part of blogging and nothing can beat the happiness and gratitude I savor by being part of the blogging world.

I blog because it makes me happy. I blog because it makes me feel alive. And I won’t stop to blog because I know what I will miss!

Written for NoMo at Yeah Write and NaBloPoMo at Blogher.
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I want you to know..

16 Tuesday Sep 2014

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Blogging has given me an opportunity to connect with other people. Random people, living in different corners of the world, but holding similar views as mine. When someone new comments on my blog I feel heavily appreciated. The pleasure all these random strangers brings just by leaving a comment or a like is immeasurable.
These random people include not just strangers but sometimes friends of friends too, whom otherwise I would not have known about.
As living beings, connecting with one another is essential for our existence. And the endless connections that can be made in the blogging world is phenomenal. I am fairly active in Social media. But I don’t usually accept friend requests from strangers nor do I send friend requests to strangers. Even among friends from school days, I check if there are enough mutual friends and weigh in if I would like that particular contact to have access to my profile a lot before actually accepting the request. But in the blogging world it is very simple. After reading one or two posts the connection starts developing. It is not about knowing where you are from or what you have been up to. It doesn’t matter what your relationship status is or your appearance or your lively hood or the your bank balance. It is as simple as ‘I would to know what you have to tell and I would like to know your views on mine’.
I stepped into the world of blogging almost 6 years back. But I was very very inconsistent until few months ago. Owing to the not so good factors happening around me I decided its time I take a stand and do something for me. And there I stepped back into the familiar yet unfamiliar world of blogging again. And with writing more consistently than before I made new connections. Now many faces around here are familiar to me. I talk about many of the blogs and the contents there with my husband like I talk about my favorite friends.
I know this cannot be considered as a major achievement in life but I don’t feel any of this as minor either. Because ‘the not so good factors’ contribute to my rediscovery and the resultant happiness. Though my readership is not that high, I feel happy and appreciated with even a single response. Blogging is helping me write more often than I thought I would.
So my dear blogger friends, wherever you are, whoever you are, I am glad you exist. You reading my posts makes me feel grateful just like the help arrived last-minute when everything goes wrong. Stay blessed!
Originally published in my blog Reflections.

The Beginning…

29 Wednesday Oct 2008

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I wonder how I started expressing my views with the help of pen and paper!! Yes I remember when I started pouring my thoughts on a bit of paper.. It was on a fine day when I was a school girl! And it went on from that point as smooth flow…Till the last day of my college.. And then a gap of 2 and a half years..

But when I put a pause to writing , couldn’t come back again in touch with pen and paper yet. And here I was trying hard to write once more during these busy less house wife days of my life.. I have been giving immense thought in this matter when I realized the truth that I am not able to write even a sentence or that the thoughts filled in my heart is residing there as such , wanting a vent and to get rid of the suffocation it experiencing throughout these years..

So here comes my first blog as a first step to pave a way for my thoughts and imaginations on a piece of paper (or rather this blog).