Individual interests

Since 2021 I have been organizing our trip pictures as a movie. Most of them are on Youtube for our family view only or in a private setting.

This is my self interest and the rest of my family shows no interest in looking back at them. I keep thinking will a time come when they would want to view the same but I do not think it is going to happen in the near future.

I also take a family picture every year and blow it up in canvas and hang it during New Year! My husband says it really makes him sad as the picture shows him aging 😂! But the picture remains on the wall! My son with autism is not interested in any visual items and my younger one whom I can call a last of Gen Z doesn’t care about it.

This is where I talk about my “patience”. I do not get angry or sad with them. I give them their space of not enjoying my work and I am happy I am not being stopped from doing the same.

I love making albums and technology has made it so easy. A hobby which we do not need to spend a lot of money just some time and effort. Even a huge canvas print costs cheap (less than a breakfast for our family of 4). So I continue to do it and maybe one day I would get appreciated for the effort! Nah! that is not going to happen. If it does, I may need to take my family to a doctor to see what is wrong with them.

This post I am tagging to Sadje’s Sunday Poser. Her question being What were your initial expectations when you started your blog?

Like everyone I thought I would be making money by blogging. Soon I realized I need to pay WordPress money to have space. This has become a hobby and more of a personal space. It is my space and I can ramble on it and I enjoy doing it. It has become a stress buster for me and has also created an individuality. I wanted the blog to reflect me and I am more than thrilled about it. My blog is just like my photo album collection but it is just public.

I had answered to Sadje in her comments but as I wrote the blog I felt a connection to her poser. In fact a reflection of why I blog.

When I was in India last year, I was checking the albums in my parents place. I had made albums like journals with what I had that time. Thanking my dad once again, we were lucky growing up, we visited a lot many places in India when transportation was not this comfortable or cheap.

Sunday Poser # 242- Ambitions for your blog? – Keep it alive

5 responses to “Individual interests”

  1. Blogging helps me to express mysel and I enjoy reading other blogs. They connect us. It is a nice feeling. Some years ago ther was this craze of making videos of the wedding functions. We got it done for our daughter’s wedding too. But it is lying somewhere in the cupboard. I feel photographs are better. We can just turn the pages of the albums and remember.

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    1. Yes I didn’t expect to meet so many other bloggers and read wonderful poems and stories.

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  2. When Mumbai was Bombay. Good old times 🙂

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    1. Ha! And that was three decades ago!

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  3. Your inspirations and thoughts behind starting your blog really resonate with me! It’s such a joy to connect with like-minded people through their writing. Keep going—and never give up!

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