It’s been a while! ~About the next article, upcoming blog ideas, and how I have been coping with life.
Hey folks!
I am aware that it has been a year+ time since I have updated my last blog here as it took me a while to come back to this place and restart writing.
This year has been a little too hectic, quite overwhelming one that I have literally been all over the places both physically and mentally. Under such circumstances, it is so hard to maintain one’s creative side and I’ve struggled a lot with it.
It has always felt like that I’ve been living in a very stormy weather; where a minute after I think about something, the idea would get blown away with a massive wind.
And it’s been quite exhausting to have constantly been reminded of that my true self was slowly getting undermined.
Then I’ve decided to take a pose, stay away from such turmoil, to take good care of myself.
Coincidentally about the same time in the world, an outbreak of Covid-19 has forced us to live under the Stay-at-home order from the government. So here I was staying home alone, thinking deeper and deeper (sometimes sinking deepest into my own messed up world), gradually started to think of regaining my lost passion and start writing my blogs again.
For days and weeks though, I’ve had these ideas flying around inside my head with an inability to write a single word.
One day, I have come to a realization that the idea of “writing content for someone else” is becoming such a deterrence to me.
When I started this blog, my sole purpose was to write down my feelings and thoughts on things, so I’d be able to keep them and look back. All of my past articles have been, for this reason, completely of my interests and sometimes I was too passionate that I wrote pages.
As for this being online, I (very luckily) had chances to share my interests with some of my lovely readers which sometimes lead to a good discussion, and I was honestly so happy about it.
However, the fact that my brain kept on telling me “your contents don’t matter to other people” or “that saying isn’t maybe completely fit to what I mean” was the primary reason that had me completely put off from writing blogs.
I then started asking myself; “I’d be more than happy if, anyhow, my blogs could lead to a good discussion among people or be something that people resonate with, but don’t I know goddamn enough that I am just purely incapable of writing something people-pleasing 24/7?”.
Then I went on and told myself, “maybe that’s ok, too”.
So here I am, with a total clean slate, dropping a new blog post for the first time in a while tonight!
Since I’ve decided to stick to my interests and curiosities, the topic is about “Podcast” which may not be of interest for a majority of people.
However, since listening to the podcast has become a big part of my life especially during this time of quarantine, I am more comfortable and excited to talk about it and share some of my favourite podcast personalities (which, btw, I think most of you also enjoy listening to as their contents cover a wide variety of topics) with you guys.
I’m going to talk about the benefits of listening to a podcast (kinds of the occasions when it beats other types of social media), my favourite channels/personalities on this community, and why I especially got into them.
If you’re thinking
“I don’t know where to start when it comes to a podcast”
or
“what the heck is a podcast, anyway?”
this might be the article for you so stay tuned! 😉
FYI, some of the topics I’m thinking of blogging after this podcast article would be…
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・Online Detoxification (especially turning off those push notification on my smartphone) practice and how it affected my life
・Starting mindfulness practice in daily life; observing how meditation affects my mood and mental health in general
・My favourite Turkish recipes (vegan, vegetarian-friendly ones included!)
・Observing my 8/2 vegetarian life
・My favourite Youtubers
・Review and comments on my favourite books, movies, Netflix series, and more
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p.s.
I will try my best to write most of the articles in both Japanese and English, as I want to improve my writing skills in both languages and practice translation, but this could totally be up to my condition as well.
Peace!
