Inscriptions

 I finished reading another book, "The Picture of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde. I am happy to say that I hit the minimum of two books per month goal for January. I have this sense of accomplishment and feel quite satisfied that in three days I read two books. If only I could just keep reading like this, but alas, it is not to be, I have so many other things that I need to tend to, so hitting pause on the reading for a brief period till I am able to complete the immediate tasks at hand. But before that I felt like I should put down a few thought I had about the book. The book was a good read, a little heavy and on the philosophical side, and I think it is something that makes you want to introspect about how you are. In my view it primarily deals with the concept of self, how we view ourselves in the sense of how we think we are and what we want to be, and what we actually are, and how others view us are  quite different. Carl rogers talks about the congruence of self-concept, ...

For the past one year it has been very difficult to make time to read anything else other than research papers, which was good because it helped me to complete my thesis but also not so good because I have fallen behind on my reading goals. So this year I wanted to read more books and at least try to catch up on all reading I have missed for the last year and a half or more. And I have some news to share on that front, I completed a book, the first book of this year, it has been on my reading list for a long time now, I finally mustered the courage to pick it up and start reading and I am glad I did.  The book is a collection of lectures delivered by Margaret Atwood entitled "On Writers and Writing", somehow seemed apt to start off my reading year with a book like this especially because I wanted to do more of reading and writing this year. I enjoyed reading the book, and just the fact that I was reading again after so long kept me going and the content of the book also was q...

 So this is my attempt to getting back to writing, I noticed how I wasn't able to write even a single post in 2023, but that's understandable I suppose, I had to forcefully tuck that part of myself away as I had to focus all my energies on completing my thesis. Now that I have completed that arduous task, I am free to once again distribute my time among my creative pursuits. Somehow it was easier to get back to setting up my bullet journal but getting back to writing has been so much harder, it's possible that I found it hard to write again because so much of the writing I was doing was academic or had to serve some purpose, I hadn't written anything simply for the joy of being able to put words together. I had almost forgotten what it felt like to do that.  In the recent times I have been thinking a lot about writing, and have had serious doubts about whether I can actually do it. To be honest it has been really scary to do that as I had been wondering if I was any goo...