I guess I’m back…
Three years ago, I started setting up this page to chronicle my adventures. I wanted to find a reason to write again and I thought a blog would help me get into the writing vibe. I told my friends I wanted to quit my job and just float around while maintaining a blog. So, I spent the last couple of months of my office life and the first months of traveling thinking of website names, searching for matches of all the names I thought of! And I could not believe how choosing a name for my page proved to be a headache! All the names I wanted were taken! When I finally decided on one, I made sure I created accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, and of course, Facebook. That’s when Arrivingwhere was born.
My progress was really slow. I was looking for a job online, trying to learn to code my page, while traveling and having fun. There were months I had drafts of what I wanted to post but consolidating photos and learning how to make my page attractive took time. So, needless to say, the stories didn’t get posted. I have to update all those drafts I wrote and rewriting the stories all over again felt like work as I was busy looking for a job I wanted.
Then waves of adventures and misfortunes came to being and Arrivingwhere got washed away on the far end of my thoughts. I didn’t want to share my ups and downs with everyone anymore. I guess I did not want to be vulnerable to tons of scrutiny, people I know would do. I realized how a lot of the people you know are the very first ones to be highly critical and judgmental about your decisions in life. There was even a point when sharing events on any platform felt like a job instead of sharing just because you’re happy to do it. Since then, I shared less and less. I still post sometimes, depends on who I was with.
Fast forward to now, I feel bad that because there were so many things I wanted and needed to do all at once, the one thing I love doing, writing, got set aside. I always had it on the back of my head and boy, today, I am finally in front of my computer writing! Today, I don’t feel like it’s a job to do this. Today, I care less about familiar people that might stumble upon this. But I’ll check with my feelings again tomorrow!
I hope to write more and more starting today. This page had been sleeping for a long time. Hopefully, like a diesel engine, little by little, this baby starts revving up and you are welcome to read!
Then waves of adventures and misfortunes came to being and Arrivingwhere got washed away on the far end of my thoughts. I didn’t want to share my ups and downs with everyone anymore. I guess I did not want to be vulnerable to tons of scrutiny, people I know would do. I realized how a lot of the people you know are the very first ones to be highly critical and judgmental about your decisions in life. There was even a point when sharing events on any platform felt like a job instead of sharing just because you’re happy to do it. Since then, I shared less and less. I still post sometimes, depends on who I was with.
Fast forward to now, I feel bad that because there were so many things I wanted and needed to do all at once, the one thing I love doing, writing, got set aside. I always had it on the back of my head and boy, today, I am finally in front of my computer writing! Today, I don’t feel like it’s a job to do this. Today, I care less about familiar people that might stumble upon this. But I’ll check with my feelings again tomorrow!
I hope to write more and more starting today. This page had been sleeping for a long time. Hopefully, like a diesel engine, little by little, this baby starts revving up and you are welcome to read!
