Finally, I got recognized.

“What? Worst Blogger Award?” and that’s how the roasting started. I could have avoided that, if I didn’t leave that disclaimer at the end in the previous post. One of my other friend already started shouting, quite literally, after having specifically mentioned not to make a big deal out of it. In a way, I kind of knew something like this would definitely happen. And I am here, writing another one, to be roasted a day later. I already came to know about this award an hour earlier than this roasting began. And I kept silent about the another one.

There was a time when I used to make use of my excellent Photoshop skills to make the digital award, which quite frankly wasn’t as appealing as I thought it would be. But I guess, I was kind of showing off or perhaps it was a desperate attempt to get recognized. Whatever it was, it didn’t quite work. Because I am where I have started after 8 years of blogging (almost going to complete). Wait, what? 8 years? Yes, don’t get alarmed. I am pretty old when it comes to blogging, but let’s just say, I have been anonymous since no one knows me. So, this another award comes as a surprise to me. Blogger Recognition Award. So, first of all, thanks to the uber talented Ankita Anand who blogs at Creativity ✒📃😍✌ who is a great artist and an accomplished blogger. Thank you.

As usual, the tough part. The “R-U-L-E-S”. Imagine me rolling my eyes

The Rules of the award are :

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p style=”text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;”>a. Thank the blogger who has nominated you and provide a link to their blog.
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p style=”text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;”>b. Write a post to show your award.
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p style=”text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;”>c. Briefly tell your blogging journey.
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p style=”text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;”>d. Give two pieces of advice to new bloggers.
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p style=”text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;”>e. Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award.Comment on each blog you have nominated to inform them and share the link you have created.
«Sorry, but I am going to skip this. Not because there aren’t people more deserving. But because some are just too skeptical about getting an award. I just lost the zeal to pass it on after a recent encounter. »

The Journey

8 years remember? Yes, I am glad you have a good memory, which apparently is lacking in me. So, it all started in 2009. It seems like yesterday, though. I guess I have told this story a million times over, even though my total number of posts are just seven hundred posts, in total. Whoa, right? Not exactly. It might seem like I have come a long way. I might have written great many posts. I might be an expert at this thing. But, in all fairness, I am not. Now, I have heard people say, “Don’t belittle yourself”, “You are a great writer” (Okay, I agree they just meant good, not great), “Your English is complicated”, “I can’t write like you”, “What’s the correct pronunciation to this word?”, “You have to ask Ajay about that” – all this because of blogging. As much as I would like to brag about it, I can’t. I am more of a realist. I take into the facts and my overthinking- assumptive-mind into drawing conclusions. And in all possible scenarios, I undermine myself, which is again a fact. 

So, when you ask me about my blogging journey, I have been writing for quite a while, as you can tell. I started writing because I was kind of fascinated by a cousin brother of mine who wrote excellent stories and even more deep abstracts. That just blew my mind away. I started blog right after that. And all these years, I have tried great many things, from poetry to fiction to haiku to abstract. Some were good (I mean ok-ok types) while a great many were bad, obviously. And for a while I went into hibernation for a while and then I kind of restarted my blog, on a completely new platform, which I had hoped to be a great success. But ain’t I the one reaching for the stars buried 5 feet deep? But in all retrospect, some of the best things about blogging are :

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p style=”text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;”>a. I came across great many people, the bloggers specifically, who have become good, nice friends.
b. Though I know great many bloggers, quite a lot of whom I interact on a general basis, none of them seems to be as interested in my blog. But still, all these are some mind boggling writers.
c. The best part of all this is when my friends address each other with the names I gave them on my blog. That, I consider as an accomplishment, to be very fair.
d. Other accomplishments include 700+ posts, three blogs, my own domain, my own hosting, no revenue.

The Advice

Keep Writing. I saw two pieces in the question, so I made this very easy. First of all, however old I may be in real and in blogging-wise, I am the last person who needs to be giving any advice. But if you ask me, I would tell the same thing I keep telling people. Here’s the list again :

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p style=”text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;”>a. Keep Writing.
b. Write not because you have to or because you promised yourself to, or because someone told you to. Writing, in itself is a feeling. Something that elates your mind to a whole new level. It is the high you get when you let your cocooned thoughts and feelings. It is an escape that lets you explore in a world surreal, that let’s other implore beyond the realms of their and your imagination.

The Nomination

I sincerely apologize for not giving any names. No, not because there aren’t anyone deserving, but because it is not received as it should be. I had a recent encounter and it left quite a sour taste. But, I assure that I will intimate all the deserving people, soon, with probably another award, either passed on or self made.

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p style=”padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;”>P.S. : Whispers I am not as good as you think I am. I have made that clear, over and over over, haven’t I?
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