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The tenth blogiversary sneaked in unnoticed while I was otherwise occupied, and left, probably in a huff. Sigh. It is not everyday that one turns ten and the lack of excitement on my part must really have chafed. And yet, what could I have done under the circumstance? With the sons home together, that too after more than a year, and for the briefest of holidays, how could I have found time to celebrate the reaching of the tenth milestone? Hmm… Looks like the only recourse open to me now is to make a belated go at it.
‘Twas ten years back that I wrote my very first blog at the now extinct Yahoo 360. At the time, Shail’s Nest was still two years into the future. When the Nest was eventually born, the same post written back at Yahoo, was carefully dusted, polished and presented as a brand new one at second place, titled, A Sketch.
Come to think of it, ten years is quite a long time and the question naturally arises, has blogging changed your life and if so, how? Believe me, it has. It changed a nondescript homemaker and turned her into someone. Not SOMEONE or SomeOne, not even Someone, but merely someone. You might well ask, how did she, this homemaker, me (all one and the same), know that she had turned into this ‘someone’? Good question. The reactions from those around has been a fairly good indicator. There’s been equal amounts of cheer, admiration, applause, disbelief, and what-the-fu*k-do-you-know-about-anything thrown her way.
The post-blogging version of Shail is different from the pre-blogging one who tentatively let her fingers try out tap dancing on the keyboard. Of course, it is not a whole brand new version, because she still has a lot of the old stuff running too deep in her, but a version that has a lot of new elements introduced and incorporated with the original. Is it good or bad, all this mixing of the old and the new, only time shall reveal.
Another question that raises its head is, how long shall this torture of unsuspecting readers go on shall blogging continue? This far and no more, is a fav motto of mine. It shall be no different with blogging. Much to my chagrin, I have found that there is an expiry date to everything in life. I am damned if I am going to have the expiry date thrust on unsuspecting me in this case. So, I have set the date myself. The clock ticks. How far or near is a secret I am loathe to part with. All in good time, my dears.
So, let the fingers waltz, kathak, bharatnatyam, mohiniattam, bump and grind, bollywood, bhangra, drobushki, flamenco, samba, para para, mazurka, jig, gidha… Naaah, none of them. I’ll stick to the tried and tested, the tap dance. So let the fingers (mine) tap dance till such time as the clock stops ticking.
Happy Tenth to Me.
©Shail Mohan 2016
Happy 10th to you. 🙂 May your blog continue to grow, bringing happiness to you and your readers, along with it.
Aww… thank you, Pooja 🙂
Happy 10th Shail! Keep writing 🙂
Thank you, M 🙂 ❤
Happy 10th Blogiversary Shail 🙂 For what it’s worth you are a Someone in my book 🙂 Happy to follow you,albeit silently most of the time 😉
So sweet of you to say that. Thank you, Shailaja 🙂
Tenth huh? How brilliant. 🙂 Your blog is my blog’s chechi by 9 months 😛
I used to think that that expiry date for my blog was near too, but I find that I find solace while writing. So I continue.
And I hope your nest does too. 😀 Happy belated birthday.
Chechi blog. 😀 That sounds nice 😛
Well, you can continue writing even if you do not blog 🙂
And thank you for the birthday wishes 🙂
Ten? Wow, I’m impressed and congratulations. I understand completely the need to control an end (of anything) There are so few things we can really control when it comes to our destiny. I applaud you. Until then, I shall continue to enjoy your blog.
Thank you, Sheila. Always welcome here. Yes, there are very few things we have control over, so at least this should go according to my plan 🙂
Best of luck to you.
A happy decade of blogging
And into Shail’s Nest hopping
We enjoyed every read
Never satiated our greed
And talking of stopping will have us sobbing!
Oh no, no, no. No sobbing, Gul 😀
Congratulations on letting us into your life for the past 10 years. I for one, enjoy everything (well almost everything) that you have to say. (Yes, mostly everything!)
Judy
Glad you enjoy mostly everything 😀
Thank you, Judy 🙂
Congratulations on the 10 years of being “someone” 🙂
10 years of tap dancing on the keyboard quite strongly says the keyboard is such a powerful thing isn’t it?
I certainly like the tap tapping music that it makes, the rush of words, the pauses, the fullstops, and then sometimes silence.
Anyways, that’s my tap dancing getting the better of me.
I wish you many more happy years of blogging. Another 10 years and maybe keyboards will be extinct and it will be our voice that dictates words to appear on the screen. It is there even now – but maybe it will become commonplace.
Quite a lyrical comment there, Amira. Thank you so very much! 🙂 Haha, you noticed ‘the pauses, full stops and silences’ and then again ‘a rush of words’ 😉
Thank you for the wishes. Yes, we may soon find keyboards disappearing. But will I blog through the spoken word? I guess not. 🙂
I know I’m a little late:
But happy tenth anniversary!! :). Just want to say you’re blog has been amazing. You’re really influential and there’s always something to learn from you.
Very belated wishes for your tenth!! I’m so glad I met you via this online world of ours! You were my first reader and you encourage me at every turn!! I hope the deadline you have given yourself is waaaay into the future!! ❤