It has been bouncing around inside my head for quite some time to start a blog and make a habit of writing. It's one of these things that is easy to sit on and never start though. Well, today this is going to change and here is the start!
I have a few reasons to do this.
The first comes from a two week "staycation" inside managed isolation on a trip back to New Zealand at the start of the year. As part of that trip, my much better half convinced me to make a daily post about our journey through quarantine. It turned out to be quite popular, in addition to giving us something to look forward to each day (which is pretty important when your locked up in a hotel room under guard for two weeks). I think I will extract the posts I made on Facebook and copy them over here at some point but that can be a future project for now.
The second is slightly more personal. I don't live with my children and due to "THE COVID" I don't see them nearly enough (and even before 2020, it was not nearly enough). By making a daily habit of writing about my life, what's in my head and what I am up to I can provide another mechanism to communicate with my kids in addition to the zoom calls and messages we exchange. I am also trying to take some of my own medicine here as I am constantly asking for them to send me messages about what they are up to. It is only fair if I ask them that I make a habit of doing it too. A blog gives me a way to really write about things that a few lines of an iMessage doesn't.
The third is much more personal. My hand held up high here, I have not enjoyed the last six months. The first six months of "THE COVID" I had very little issues with. I had a stack of projects and things to keep me occupied. The last 6 months has not been kind to the inside of my head though. I have really struggled. I let slip a lot of very good life changes I had made in 2018 and 2019 and took a few backwards steps. I made some other steps forward too - some big ones I will talk about at some point - but there are area's of my life I would like to reset back to their mid-2019 states. Writing and getting things out of my head and down in words I believe is very important. Even if no-one else reads this, this blog will serve the purpose of doing that.
I am going to try and keep most of my daily updates to what I can see on one screen, and we are reaching that point now. These will more than often that not be a bit more light hearted with my attempts at humour than today but I thought it was important to set the scene on my motivations. There will be pictures and video's too & I am going to start writing about some of my interests in addition to the daily personal blog. I do hope some of you tune in regularly.
Below is a picture of my children from the end of 2019, when they came to visit me in Dubai. How little did we all understand the impact 2020 will have. I have added the picture here as a reminder to myself more than anything of why it is important to do this writing.
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