I’ve been away from this space for quite some time now and I had to clear some cobwebs in the process of writing this post. Lol. Different people reached out to me as regards the silence on here, including someone I don’t know from twitter, so I decided to come out of my ‘break’ and put something out. I literally just picked up my laptop this evening and started typing because I just had to do it now and stop stalling.
This break that I had (almost 2 months or more now!) wasn’t at all intentional. I started the year with high hopes of what I hoped to achieve with this space of mine and in the first month I was doing so well but I somehow started slacking by February. It started with me delaying my one-year anniversary post for no just reason and then evolved into just being too lazy to edit the many drafts of posts I had planned to put up. I was still battling with all these when NYSC orientation camp up and seeing as I couldn’t take my laptop with me to camp, I decided to halt all blogging till the end of camp – I even toyed with the idea of blogging about my camp experience. And then COVID-19 happened and the camp was cut short on day 9 of 30.
Coming out of the camp to meet the news of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria increasing had my mind all over the place and blogging was not on my agenda. It also didn’t help that all of a sudden, the whole world was going into one form of a lockdown or the other and I couldn’t bring myself to think of anything worthwhile to write on. There were a million and one posts on COVID-19 and all that surrounded it and I just felt it wasn’t necessary to add to the number because most said the same thing in different words.
In this period of being away, I have tried to introspect and figure out what exactly it is I want to achieve with my blogging. I toyed with going into lifestyle blogging fully but I don’t think I am comfortable enough to share so much about my personal life with the world. I am currently trying to balance this side of me with sharing my life experiences and the lessons I have learnt and I know I’d get the hang of it soon because I really do love sharing.
It’s not been very easy staying agile and productive in this period and this has even sparked up some debates on social media with some people saying how we should make sure we learn a new skill or complete an online course in this period, while others say it’s a good time to unwind and relax. At this point, I feel like there is only so much learning or relaxing one can do, especially when you have no idea when this season will end or what comes after.
I am hoping and praying the world recovers from this pandemic very soon so that we can resume our normal lives, although it’s beginning to seem very obvious that life as we know it might change in some way. In spite of that, it will be a relief to be able to move around and do something other than zoom meetings, Instagram live or just sitting at home. It’s not so easy but I try not to think too much about things and just control what I can which majorly include what I consume and how I spend my day.
How have you been faring in this period? I’d love to hear about things you’ve done (are doing) to remain sane.
Stay safe (and keep following all safety precautions),
Sisikunmi.
