Hello again! I know I have been MIA in this space for quite some time. My last post was August and I haven’t updated it ever since. I even missed my yearly Hello This Year, Goodbye Last Year in my blog. But I will definitely still do that for this year. Better late than never.
Let me explain why I have been away from my blog for almost 7 months now. I haven’t updated you that early last year, April 2022 to be exact, I transferred work location. I am still working under the same institution but a different location. We are glad that we have moved nearer to the city. We, now, can send our kids to the Philippine School which is in the city of Muscat and visits to the mall is not a monthly thing now. Yay! Life is somewhat comfortable now because we are in the city but also complicated in the sense that some comforts of our life in the interiors were taken away. Like, in my previous work place, I can just walk to work but in my new work place, I need to be driven to work because our rented unit is 20mins away from the hospital I am working at. Also work hours in my new hospital is very different from my previous hospital, even management of patients are very different. Kids also started in the new school and they are loving it. But that need a lot of adjustment too. There are no more online classes so my husband has to drive the kids daily to school. We were trying to adjust to our new life here in the city. At the later part of last year, we also took our much-awaited vacation to the Philippines – our 1st vacation back to Philippines since we arrived in Oman 3 years ago.
But it was not only the move that attributed stop blogging for awhile. Also early last year, I decided to stop Instagram. I started to become more protective of my privacy. I, slowly, felt that chasing Likes, doing all the comments to get traction and craving out family time to create content became more futile and a waste of time. Then just like that, I bid goodbye to Instagram and stopped posting in my Instagram feed and Instagram stories. I kept only my personal Facebook for my family & friends which I update now & then. I have abandoned Twitter years ago already. I started to feel the aversion to seek validation and self-promotion in social media. I hardly even post any selfies now in my personal Facebook. I felt such peace in letting go of social media. It was quite a comfortable state to be in – not caring too much of pushing contents and getting Likes & Shares – that this spilled out even in my blogging. I feel like I don’t want the intrusion of people and I want to hibernate in my warm cocoon – just my family and me.
However, there is still a part of me who just wants to write for the sake of writing- expressing my thoughts in string of words. I realised I will never abandon this blog (unless it will abandon me – Hackers, stay away!). I have to keep writing here. Not to be famous. Not to get free merchandise and free staycations (though that would be awesome!). Not to use this as my source of livelihood (but if that happens, why not). I just want to blog. I just want to write. To document my thoughts as I journey in life. If you want to keep reading my adventures, thoughts and opinions, be my special guest. Please stay! I cannot guarantee you that I will create perfect blog post like popular influencers or do giveaways or hand out discount codes. I will write about my life abroad here in Oman, my interests, my travels, my book recommendations and anything that tickles my fancy. I will do the old school blogging, just as I like it before. If you are okay with that, come back for more. Will be post more post in coming weeks. Thank you for staying.
