{"id":336,"date":"2015-09-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/\/?p=336"},"modified":"2024-09-02T03:36:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T03:36:35","slug":"a-flashback-blogoversary-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"A Flashback. (Blogoversary Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One year ago today I wrote a poem which was my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/2014\/09\/popular-plain_2.html\"><b>first post<\/b><\/a>. And today, here I am writing my 100th post! It&#8217;s unbelievable how time passes faster while doing something that you truly love. I can&#8217;t imagine myself not-blogging. I remember how unsure I was when I started my blog. I thought it would just be something that I would give up after a while. And today I&#8217;m the happiest for sticking to the only thing I have ever stuck with. There&#8217;s too much passion and love for it.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; After a complete year of blogging, I can tell you how happy I am. At first, every post had around 30 to 50 page views. But now, every post has at least 100 page views. Overall, my blog has 16000 page views since a year. That&#8217;s again, a big thank you to the readers. As I look forward to many changes, but first I&#8217;d like to step back and get a flashback of this incredible year.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I remember how I had written posts like<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/2014\/10\/what-makes-us-who-we-are.html\">What Makes Who We Are?<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/2014\/10\/judgmentalism.html\">Judg&#8221;mental&#8221;ism<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/2015\/02\/being-introvert.html\">Being an Introvert<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/2015\/04\/are-you-living.html\"><b>Are You Living?<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I used to portray all my deep thoughts and philosophies of life through my blog. I remember how easy it felt to do something like this. I still do. And then I decided to write short stories. It was quite tough to fit into fiction from non-fiction, But the transition was what I loved. I wrote five <a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/search\/label\/short%20story\"><b>short stories<\/b><\/a>&nbsp;back to back! I remember how exciting it felt to write a love story.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/2015\/05\/coincidental-love-part-i.html\"><b>Coincidental Love<\/b><\/a>&nbsp;will always hold a special place in my heart.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; After a couple of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/search\/label\/Travel\"><b>travel posts<\/b><\/a>&nbsp;and many&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/search\/label\/books\"><b>book related posts<\/b><\/a>, I started my own blog series!&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/search\/label\/Monday%20Moments\"><b>Monday Moments<\/b><\/a>&nbsp;is why I have started to like Mondays. In this series, I write about any random moments in brief. I try to bring out a particular feeling through my words.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lastly, I started taking up&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/theabstractreaderwriter.blogspot.in\/search\/label\/guest%20post\" style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>guest posts<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;which has been a great experience so far.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Now, after&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.6666660308838px;\">committing<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;myself to my blog portal, I&#8217;ve decided to bring out some changes. During this week, I&#8217;ll be working on it and give you guys an&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18.6666660308838px;\">improved<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;view. Until&nbsp;then, keep reading!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One year ago today I wrote a poem which was my&nbsp;first post. And today, here I am writing my 100th post! It&#8217;s unbelievable how time passes faster while doing something that you truly love. I can&#8217;t imagine myself not-blogging. I remember how unsure I was when I started my blog. 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