The beginning & The end

I started writing this blog in Sept 2017 with the hope of keeping a virtual journal & repository of all the food I’ve tried & tasted (tested). After watching Julie & Julia (thrice) I knew I was ready to pen my thoughts in the most articulate way I could. My initial posts were sub-standard and I spent many days editing pictures & rewriting drafts for posts I wasn’t thrilled about. What started of as an amateur project slowly turned into a tedious task for someone like me who didn’t do their research. A few posts later I was still struggling between keeping up with posting content. Meanwhile, I had established an Instagram page that needed equal if not more time & dedication for it to grow. There was a need for me to be consistent and regular with my content or I would see a decline in site traffic. After gaining roughly 500 followers on Instagram & writing exactly 7 posts on my blog by the end of 2017 I had lost interest & had given up on my very ambitious pet project. I figured that if it doesn’t bring me joy I shouldn’t be investing my time and brain-power in it. More so I had started feeling anxious & restlessness in doing something I once found joy in doing. So to save my sanity I deactivated my account & didn’t post any content through all of 2018 & 2019, sparing a few random pictures on Instagram. My days were the same through these two years, consumed with family, work & friends and I was happy to be back in my kitchen cooking again, not pressured to share it with the world just yet.

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