Blogging in 2024

 

It has been almost five years since I've last written on this blog.  Thought earlier that it was already lost and buried with finality somewhere in cyberspace, Blogspot having hidden it in its archives, or perhaps erased it permanently.  But the full address slowly came to mind, and there it was, the familiar tagline and background picture of the cold, desolate planet in its masthead.  It did not even require me to log in and recall my password (which would have been impossible).  Seems my log in credentials in Google (or was it Gmail) was enough to give me access to the Blogspot platform.  So, pretty soon I was editing that last post from way back in 2019.

Quite a nostalgic trip going through my past posts.  Like reading what this other guy has composed through the years - some corny lines here and there, a few familiar or resonating entries.  Went through the comments of a few friends, fellow bloggers at a time when the world was just beginning to discover the internet and what it can provide in terms of connecting individuals from across the globe.  Facebook - that allowed short posts, quick re-shares, and those iconic reactions (the ever present emojis) - was still in its infancy.  YouTube still had all these low-quality, often pixelated videos, shot from Nokia phones (3310) which were as tekkie as one can get when it came to owning a mobile phone then.  Had a blast watching such videos of these two Chinese guys lip syncing their favorite songs in their dormitory room, while another guy, his back to the camera, nonchalantly works in front of the desktop the whole time.  Often brought some laughs back in those days.

Composed this entry around a picture of Jupiter in the night sky, taken with my phone's camera (a wooden post across the street, that held all these electric cables, visible on the right side).  Was simply amazed by this bright light which I first thought was a supernova or asteroid (temporarily captured in an orbit around our Gaia).  But according to my smartphone's application, it was the biggest gaseous planet of our solar system.  Thought it was a good photo to signal my return to this safe space, and all the new things that I could be writing about in the coming days.  Nice to wallow again in that long-forgotten feeling of struggling to put into words thoughts that linger between one's daydreams and conscious moments.  All because of that one small dot of light.