"Can you write something?"

So, it's been a while. Been such a long while that I almost forgot about this - the writing and the reading, and this space that I have here. I intended to stop blogging (apart from the few posts earlier this year) - since the Fall of last year for one reason - to detach myself from my blog and the practice of it so that I ask myself why it is that I want to share a little about me here - and in essence - why it is that I write.

Writing is a difficult thing to do. Good writing is an even harder thing to achieve. While I have devoured good and not so helpful content everyday - in form of news cycles that can take up one's whole day, discovered new podcasts and added a few more books to my reading list, at some point I forgot why it was that I stopped blogging in the first place. Without the writing, I did some side projects, committed to finding a job, bought a few more books that I am yet to read and there was a sense that I was slowly devolving and letting go of some part of me.

And so why do I write?

For one, writing it is how I walk with myself. Writing is how I remind myself who I was, who I am and the person I am becoming. I write because it is the only thing that can bring me a little closer to knowing, to unknowing and all that lies in between that process.

I write to seek clarity as well as to pursue the ambiguous. It is how I challenge my knowledge of a subject, a person and brave the darkness and finding out that I need to consider the other - their perspective, background, ideals, hopes and dreams - even if they are far different from my own. Writing is how I challenge my stereotypes, cynicism, hopelessness and how I befriend fear, anger and disappointments.

Sometimes I am afraid to write, and other times I hate to write. But always I want to write - and that is why I am coming back to this blog. Because if I am to continue to pursue this process, I would not want to do that alone. This space is my thought space - where I will share my successes, stories as well as my deepest pains. And in a sense - I will be accountable to you.

And we begin.

the featured image is a free study piece I did for my Color class in Spring this year.