I got up to my mother’s video call at around 11 am. The conversation lasted for almost ten minutes and the moment she hung up I kind of curled back in the bed. Fifteen minutes later I dragged myself out of the bed and went straight to the kitchen. I started making tea for myself. Believe it or not, I really enjoy making myself a mug of tea. That mention to “mug” as intentional. I love making tea as much as I enjoy drinking it. It is a therapeutic phenomenon for me. I look forward to sitting with my tea and book to start the day. It is my most favourite time of the day.
On the topic of books, I decided to read at least 12 books this year.
One book per month. I am not a voracious reader. Reading doesn’t come naturally to me, so I have to make a conscious effort towards my reading goal. So far, I have read three books, Never Been Happier by Shaheen Bhatt, The Strange Case of Billy Biswas by Arun Joshi and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. If you are interested, then I highly recommend the last one. I posted my first free-style writing blog yesterday and so far the response is overwhelming. If you haven’t checked it yet, check it here.
I had planned to start a couple of things today.
But sluggish got the better of me. What I rather did was check on my Instagram and Twitter. I posted a video yesterday about sunset and I was just going through the comments on it. It also made me think why people don’t support content creators these days. I have close to a thousand friends on Facebook and yet I haven’t reached the 1000 subscribers mark yet. Your close friends don’t subscribe and don’t care about your efforts and aspirations.
Maybe I feel this way because I know how much efforts goes into making a 5 min video. But yet I feel for the sake of solidarity one should definitely support a creator friend’s work. And by now if you are looking at me with pitiful eyes below is the link to my channel, go ahead and press that subscribe button.
Also, this is the same sunset video that I was talking about earlier.
Do watch and let me know your thoughts on it. On that note, I also did a COVID 19 Quarantine Project Series in which I posted three DIY videos which you can easily do at home during the quarantine time. I am dropping the link of all three videos below, check out if DIY interests you.
I am a little hesitant in accepting it but I feel a lot of guilt these days. Guilty of not doing enough, guilty of not being productive enough, guilty of not creating enough so on and so forth. In my defence, there is so much happening that I get caught up in something or the other. There are dishes to clean, floors to mop and so much cooking to be done. I blithely ignore all my writing and editing tasks and commit myself to the household chores. But I need to do better. I have to be more disciplined because once all this is over it is going to be an uphill task to go back the previous life. Yes, it feels like a previous life already.
This blog is part of free writing practice, which essentially means that you write everything that comes in your mind until you hit 500-word count.
