2 Years to Weekly: Favourites

I wanted to do a post where I talk about my favourite posts. The idea was to go through all my posts, edit them to find the best ones and put them on this list. This list can then be a good motivator for me to keep going as it would remind me of my capabilities as a writer.

However, the process to reach these top five wasn’t easy. One, there are over a hundred posts now considering I wrote weekly for two years! As I read each one by one, I wished to delete many of them for I am a self-critique. I was about to trash this idea of writing about my favourites but then I found these five…

Number 5:  Thank You, Aurangabad

For the first time on my blog, I wrote about something that is way too personal. It took ages for me to convince myself to post this one. Two people cried and called me saying they felt touched by my words. A few others felt proud that I penned this down.

I write about my travels and trips. There are a few series that I like going back to, like the Spiti Saga and the Konkan Kind. These trip experiences, the people I met, the people I went with, everything added volumes to my being and the blog reflected the same

Yet, I added Thank You Aurangabad on this list as it’s a reminder to me that there is nothing that I can’t share about. If I think and process it well, it can be shared on my blog. If I have been this courageous, I can definitely be more.

Number 4: 5 things I can’t live without

This post is a list of non-living things I can’t live without. I have purely added this post in this list to remind myself to stop taking things for granted. Each thing adds value to the way you live, to who you are.

These five things on this list are surely a big part of me. Yet, most of them aren’t treated well or taken care of. I am glad I wrote this post and am constantly working on respecting these things. Hopefully, before I complete another year, I’ll have learned to respect these things and more that matter in my life.

Compiling list of non-living things I can’t live without was tough both – as a writer and as a person. It was difficult to reflect and find these things in my everyday life. It was further difficult to write the justification of why I can’t live without these things.

Number 3: Home is a feeling

When I read this title, it took time for me to remember what this post was about. I read it and felt happy that I processed such a thought and posted it. It appears on my favourites list because I think this idea is worth remembering.

I work with children who don’t understand the idea of home. They were rescued from streets and other places and are now living in shelter homes with the company of many children as such. For these kids, the idea of a home that has mom, dad, grandparents etc is as alien as trigonometry is for me.

They make me realize the importance of the home as a shelter to live. When I spend an hour or two of joy with them I learn so much. They make me feel at home. The way I have explained in this post that how a home is a feeling, I wonder in the same way if these kids feel at home around me.

Number 2: River Baby

If you have travelled with me or have read a few of my posts in the past two years, you would know or perhaps have seen how rivers make me mad! I connect to rivers in more than one way and this post gives a glimpse of my love for it.

This post is part of my favourites list because I don’t remember a single low moment around a river. From the twenty-three years on this planet, I only remember my mad moments around rivers.

This post also highlights the need for something that helps you heal. For many in my friend circle it is mountains, and being in a forest or hugging a tree. I believe in the power of nature and all of this works for me too. But, love for the river is infinite!

Number 1! Things I learned from the Crazy Old Man

Uff! Trying to type this one without getting teary-eyed is difficult. The birth of my blog, nurturing my travel seed are starters of why I have so much gratitude for Sir. Everything that this post calls out is why this is my favourite post.

As a writer, it was tough to write this one as it meant to crunch a book of learning into one post. My life would be completely different in so many ways. I would be a different person in a zillion ways if Sir wasn’t part of it.

Today, two years forward or the end of the world, I think I’ll be biased towards this post. I hold too much gratitude for the person I speak of this post. Hopefully, the book I speak of in this post becomes a reality someday.

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