My friend wants me to do the month long September Musings blogathon this year. It is an initiative of hers from some years back. She had enthusiastically kicked it off with a self-designed logo to go with it and all . In fact I was equally enthusiastic in joining her at the time, and in subsequent years too.

But…

I am not so sure I want to do it this year. You see, I am pissed off with her. Every year, come the first of September, or a week or two prior to it, she is all ‘Let’s do it! Yay!’ but a week or two into the month, or sometimes merely days later, she disappears altogether leaving me all alone to complete the challenge.

So

This year when she eagerly put up a post asking her friends to join her in musing this September, I stoically kept silent. Ha! Not going to fall for it again, buddy. You are gonna leave me, yet again and run away and hide.

And yet

Here I am…. promptly starting off just as she requested. By now, you must have guessed that I was kidding. Of course, it’s absolutely true that my friend has dropped out of the challenge once too often. But by making a song and dance about it, I was just pulling her leg.

You see…

She will be the first one to admit that I am the understanding kind. Life happens, to everyone. Whatever plans we make, sometimes we are and sometimes we aren’t, able to stick to it. Moods and unavoidable circumstances play their role. It is not always smooth sailing for any of us, and that is okay.

By the way

I have missed a couple of Septembers too. Like last year when I went gallivanting off to the other side of the globe to visit my son. I wasn’t too sure I’d be able to manage a blog post every day for thirty days. So I gave it a miss altogether.

Anyway…

I am pretty sure she will be smiling from ear to ear reading this post. Not for her taking offence over a harmless joke, which I must admit is more than I can say of some others. Also, on reading this post, she will be the first one to understand what I have done here: Made myself a first post for the challenge using her as a prop.

And

Now I shall go and leave a smiley on her Facebook post where she asked us all to join her this September, and let her know I am in.

There’s one thing though: I’ll try my best to be here daily, but I am making no promises. I’ll be traveling and that makes it kind of tough to commit to full attendance.

©️ Shail Mohan 2024