A Decade Of IR

It's been awhile since I wrote anything in this blog, but I felt that as the year 2017 is heading to its close, it is a perfect time to wrap up the past 10 years for me in the context of this blog. This blog was never something that I wanted to dedicated my life into and it mainly served as an avenue for me to continuously practice my writing and slowly grow what talent I had in that field and try to keep in practice. Obviously with my update activity in the past few years, it hasn't been doing its job. Part of the reason that his has happened has to do with the fact that I slowly transitioned into paper and pen writing and the lion share of what I write these days happen to be penned down instead of being added to any online medium, well apart from a few times I submitted my work for review, had it on instagram or generally have people comment on my latest work.

I feel that as the years gone by, my writing style has evolved and took a variety of twists and turns but the best option for me today is to begin once more to write into this blog as I feel that attempting to write something weekly, or even monthly, would do wonders for my discipline. As a writer, I feel that in terms of the growth of my writing, I have slowly stepped away from being too dark but I keep drifting back in to that sort of writing as it suits me best. That being said, I feel that the style just fits as I personally think that the most comfortable style of writing is the one for me. On this note I would like to announce to my ghost audience that for the decade celebration of the blog, that I will commit to writing the blog properly once again. To be honest this is more to do with trying to build discipline in myself and to a certain extent, repay the support that I have received over the years with this blog matter how little it was.

But as this post is also coincidental to the end of 2017, I'd like to touch upon the year for me as well as talk in brief about the other years. A more in depth view of my years will of course be done on another blog I will launch in the new year.

2017 for me has been a year where I found myself dealing with a lot of failure in terms of work. I had joined a company but couldn't make ends meet there. It was also a year that as a rugger, I did not achieve the heights I could and took a very long sabbatical to try my best at work. I have also seen my share of weddings, crippling injuries and deaths. Both joy and sorrow was a huge part of my year which made it very eventful. I have found myself exposed to a variety of new experiences and struggles and I have gained a new appreciation for sales people and the tough life of door to door salesman. Towards the end of the year I have also been invited to join hands with my friends and launch a new company. Hopefully that works out well.

But more on my writing, I'd like to point that again, I have done a lot of writing in a book and I shall slowly edit and publish pieces which I feel are better on average. Of course, I also might drop back to writing in my book again, but I hope that I can keep on track. In terms of the years that past, I have once had someone do me the favor of compiling it into a pdf and I might one day share that as well. There are also instances that I have written things offhand that I might put up as well. I believe that I have to try my best to make a tangible difference to what I have done so far.

The past 10 years have been a very eventful time for me but this blog wont be the place for it to be showcased. I will hopefully cover all of it in my other blog and commit myself to slowly becoming better as a whole but especially as a writer. The time frame that has been covered in these ten years covers a rather eventful part of my life covering from when I was fifteen all the way to this year where I have officially passed the quarter-centurion mark of my life. Wrapping it up, 2017 has been good and bad but it's been eventful and I feel blessed for the many things I have been through. I would like to thank everyone that was a part of my 2017 in real life as well as online.

On a side note, I have started drafting a sci-fi esque world and hopefully 2018 I will make headway into writing lore and short stories into it.

Thanks everyone for reading, I hope you guys will bear with me the following years to come and that we grow together.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year and that as we bid Father Time goodbye and thank him for the year, we welcome Baby New Year into our arms and nurture him well.

Best Regards,
Elethor

As Seconds, Minutes and Hours,
Very Little Is Seen Or Can Be Done,
In Days, Weeks and Months,
The Things We Do Show Their Results,
In Years, Decades And A Lifetime,
We Are Left Fond Memories, Pride and Regrets.

As Time Flows, The Things We Do and Don't Accumulate,
The One Line You Read, The Words You Never Said,,
Time So Rigid,, So Fair, It Seems Unfair,
Once It Has Passed You By, Never Again,
As We Sit And Ponder What We Should Have Done,
We Oft Forget, Now Is The Moment We Can.

The Impermanence Of Life Oft Forgotten,
Only The Lingering Affection Of Days Past Remain,
An Innumerable Number Of Possibilities Ahead,
Yet What's Past Captivates Us Most,
These Words Are Mine For Me,
As They Are From Me To You. 

P.S, I Am Very Out Of Practice.