I have to be Phoenix…

The title might seem a bit strange and am sure would have aroused the curiosity in your minds. If you pore through the dictionary, the phoenix is defined as a noun and has the following meaning-

a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope

With reference to my context, it is the emblem of hope that is reborn. A fire that is rekindled!

I started my blog with great enthusiasm 2 years back in March 2010 and kept updating it regularly. As goes the saying, people take care of the things when they are new. As the things grow old, they start losing the importance and care they used to get. Probably not only things but relationships also fall in this category of fate.

My blog also shared the same fate. As the time went by, I stopped updating it. Or rather, I would say I wanted to update it but kept on procrastinating. I am really good in that. There were 57 posts in 2010 and sadly only 10 in 2011! A post in 2012 is yet to see the light of the day!

Every black cloud has a silver lining though. And for me the silver lining was that I kept my passion for writing alive by writing short stories. I shall soon be posting those after doing the proof reading. They at the moment are just raw draft.

Promises, as they say, fall in to two categories-

1. Promises that are meant to be broken.
2. Promises that are meant to be kept.

All my promises to myself for updating my blog were falling in to the category 1. I made promise and I kept breaking it. Take a look at the promise I made last year-

http://www.vicharonkiudaan.blogspot.in/2011/03/year-gone-by.html

It was exactly not a promise but an expectation, but then, without result. I have always believed that there is only ONE way of doing the thing and many ways to avoid it. I kept on finding those “many” ways-“It was a tough day today, let’s do tomorrow”, “Oh! I am occupied with so many things; I will do it on weekend” And as it always happen, that tomorrow or the weekend never came!

I never said to myself “So what if it is a tough day today, let’s infuse energy and get going”

Hope, as they say, keeps the world afloat. But I am referring to my hope as the reborn hope, the hope that took birth again to push my heart to carry on my blog further.

Today is the auspicious day of Gudi Padwa, the start of Hindu New Year. What could be a better day to start it all over again? Incidentally tomorrow is my dear friend Arpit’s Birthday also. I started my blog 2 years back on his birthday. I could not think of giving a better birthday present to him. He was the one who inspired me to chalk out my thoughts on a blog. I disappointed him though, but then I am making a promise again.

Happy Birthday Arpit!

I am sure, this time the promise I am making falls in the second category. Welcome Back Aditya!

God Bless!
Cheers!
Aditya