Why I’ve Decided to Come Back to Blogging

I haven’t blogged regularly in two years and in those two years, I’ve sometimes forgotten that I have a blog.  Blogging has been an integral part of my life for more than seven years and yet, it seems like a lifetime ago. Perhaps it’s because I’ve spent nearly a third of my life blogging about books and the other two-thirds doing other things. I’ve contemplated about the future of this blog ever since I’ve stopped blogging regularly, vacillating between stopping, like so many of those before me, and continuing. 

Looking back, I ask myself how I’ve managed to regularly blog while being a student because planning, reading and writing take up a lot of time. I still don’t have the answers to how I managed it. I won’t lie and say that I missed blogging the entire time I was gone, because there were many times that I didn’t. I did other things that I didn’t do when I blogged and I’m thankful I got to explore as well as develop my own sense of self, which is so critical.  When I blogged, I planned out everything, even if it meant saying no to doing certain things, read anytime I could, which often included down time during class, and flipped through catalogs when I could. In the years where I blogged sporadically, I became more impulsive, saying yes to things hours before and loosened up on planning. It was actually reading Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air (a book that I’ve been meant to read since I found out about when it was still on pre-order) earlier this year when I felt that itch to write regularly again.