Hello there! It’s been close to a year since I last posted on the blog, which was quite surprising to me since I felt it had only been a few months. I wish I could blame the lack of content on the pandemic but it has mostly been my inability to follow through on my initial plan made. I found myself either too exhausted or in no mood to sit down and type something for the blog because it always came across as ‘work’. The fact that I only had maybe 2-3 posts out, and not 100 or so, before feeling this ‘saturated’, made me feel all the more inadequate, further pushing me away from posting anything.

I’ve been trying for a while to put something out there, anything to just get started, but I always come back to questing whether it’s good enough for people to read? Have I verified the sources mentioned? Have I done enough research to discuss a topic? The questions seemed endless. That’s when I feel weary as to how much work seems to go into a single blog post and I drop the idea for another day. For context, I’m currently working on my Ph.D. which involves enough researching and writing that to ‘work’ just as much for a blog post didn’t seem appealing at all.

Yet I did find myself coming back and jotting down topics I’d love to talk about, books I’d like to review, etc., for whenever the spark returns. Well, here we are about a year later. I still have some of the same fears and questions in my head, but today I woke up and decided to type something out and upload it. Decided not to think too much about it but to just go with the flow. What better topic to kickstart this blog again than my inability to blog for a year, right?

In any case, this is me hoping that this one rambling post can be the start of a more regular habit with, hopefully, a lot less stress, and a lot more fun.

Cheers!