On Blogging and Nostalgia Trips

In a certain personality test, there’s a question which somehow goes: if you are currently panic-stricken, tired and stressed out, your favorite therapy would be: (a) retail therapy, (b) food tripping, (c) a hot bubble bath (or a good massage), (d) night out with girl friends. Personally I would have answered all of the above, but recently I realize that I would have added another option to the list: (e) writing in a blog or journal.

I’ve kept so many journals since my elementary days, as requirement for class, but it’s only now that I’m able to maintain an online blog, just for the heck of it. It’s been three years running so far, and though there are writers’ blocks, I’m glad I’m still able to update it at least once a month. Of course, my obsession with multiply came and heightened even more, which lessened my updating of the blogspot for a while (I’ve migrated all my reviews and albums and general blog entries there already), and I’ve just started this spiritual/prayer blog, so it’s getting quite interesting to juggle all three altogether (minus friendster and all those similar friends-friends accounts! Phew!).

Sometimes though, especially in defining moments, I suddenly drop all things to fulfill the sudden urge to write all these feelings off not just for therapy’s sake but for posterity as well. Just like today, when I’m so overcome and overwhelmed to post multiple entries in all blogs! Haha!

It all started with a recently posted blog entry which reminded me of a similar entry I posted many years ago. Because I was trying to find which “era” in the archives I saved it too, the search for the missing entry became a full-blown trip down memory lane. I read and read many entries I’ve written over the years—my love-hate relationship with my career, crazy girl bondings, my growth in DAYS, and of course, the love entries which I think occupied about 80% of my archive space! I smiled as I read some of the good memories, and I winced at the forgettable ones. How fast time flies talaga! It’s nice and haunting at the same time to be nostalgic—to see how much you’ve realized and how many lessons you’ve learned and actually applied. How many mistakes you’ve now avoided. How much you’ve sacrificed. How much you’ve celebrated. How much you’ve Loved.

So to me, and all the bloggers out there… Cheers to more and more years of whining, rejoicing, learning, sharing, writing and blog-hopping!