Hello

It’s been a long time since I flexed my fingers to type for Blogspot. I uncovered old posts from 2015, when I was still pregnant with my firstborn. So much time has passed. The luxury of Blogspot is that no one reads it, so I have no one to bring up to speed.

I can just hop on, type, and then resume everyday life.

Social media as a whole—including self-hosted blogs—has reached a stage where it feels too much like an alternate universe. A parallel to the one we’re living, manufactured not by the cosmos but by the law of man.

The standards are harsher than in real life, resembling more of a wild west type frontier than a real community. Only, instead of thieves and gunmen we have keyboard warriors and hackers. 

I miss the simpler days where you wrote for the theory of an audience—the idea that someone might be paying attention. Which is why, nine years later, I stand on the horizon of a barren blogspot. 

Ready to flex my fingers to the tune of a random schedule, perhaps hours apart, perhaps months or even years apart. An empty comment section, null in the viewer count column, and an entire blank canvas to throw words at.

Yes, I miss it here. I’m excited to be back. However long my return may be.