Happy 2020!

I love, love, love writing and get so much joy from just putting down my thoughts even if nobody reads what I write. I write just to write. I am thankful for the simple joy and contentment I get from it. The selfish part about this is that I blog for myself because it has a positive effect on me. So here I am again putting down my first post here in 2020.
Like most people, the new year forces me to be still, thoughtful, dig deeper and tackle things I have been putting off. The start of 2020 has been no different in the sense that I still found myself going inward and just taking stock but this time I did it so gently. I was not hard on myself neither did I have any regrets. I looked at the past year like an observer and just noticed what happened. I stopped and observed as if I was an artist looking at a piece of painting I had just completed. Then I felt grateful for having completed it.
A few times I thought to myself, "I should be doing more. Writing more. Using this platform/internet for gains and capitalizing from my love of writing in some way etc." But, just writing to write whenever I can feels enough, feels okay. No pressure, just raw stories with no frills...thoughts uncensored. It doesn't mean I never want to publish anything, it just means I want to continue to write when I can and how I want and just enjoy this gift.
Talking of enjoying gifts, I am truly just thankful to be sitting at my laptop typing away, in a safe neighborhood, with food in my belly and a beating heart. I am not entitled to any of these things. I mean, I wish I could say we are all entitled to these things and more, like wonderful marriages and  good relationships with our parents and loved ones and fulfilling careers etc, but quite frankly the ones before us had it worse and they too deserved/wanted better. So to even be here, as in alive and breathing and part of the online community is plenty. And even as bleak as the world may seem today, we are still enjoying more peace and living much longer than any other generation before us.
There's room for more, but I never want to forget the basics...the simple things.

Xx,

V