When you think about the various platforms available for us to put across our reflection on the different settings that teases our senses, we are being blessed with numerous options, all thanks to the world wide web! While I was a kid growing to the conscience that I am rewarded with, a paper and pen was the go to tool. But most of the time, it was just a vending tool. Scribble your thoughts which were primarily confused sense of reality or what it should be. Most of the times, those pages were met with fire in the literal sense. Since then, I have come to realize the meaning of those words in the written pages. Even if it was met with fire or the dustbin or gathered dust in a corner cupboard those musings stayed with me and it has helped someone to gain a different perspective.
Yes, I am in most of the noted social media platforms, but most of them felt incomplete for expressing what I felt. Last day I came across a meme which was a tweet that quoted, ‘Too ugly for insta too stupid for twitter too stiff for tiktok’. Felt like it was an inside joke for too many in my generation. As I forwarded the meme to my friend, she just turned that around and quoted, ‘Too busy enjoying life to post on Instagram, too mature for Tiktok, too intelligent for twitter’. I could not help but think the major differences in the thought process of being current/valid or how the terms of having fun have changed. The real life and the reel life, even though not a full grown movie production with changes in settings/characters/plots but nothing less sort of it either.
Why start an online journal to say the least is not really wondering question, at least not for me (pun intended). I love writing, which started from the time I could remember. And with the time in my hand it’s better late than never. Though, this space will not be just words, am in love with photography or any little things that can bring a smile to my face. So this would be just a culmination of nuggets, maybe just to say i loved the surprise look on my husband’s face when I put a ‘break’ in the code while creating the WordPress site or the stray cat that cuddled me or the rainbow that broke out or the quotes that inspired me or pictures, paintings that took me to a different world or thoughts that nagged or that I wanted to write about. All simple things, that paints a smile or a thought. That’s just me and my musings.
Musings of being in a mechanized ambiance 