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I swear I was going to junk this blog and let it get lost in oblivion - primarily because one of my goals to start the year clean was to declutter my digital life. This means getting rid of all online platforms that don't serve me or anyone anymore. I wanted to focus on things that matter, granted, this blog still matters so much to me, but I felt like I won't have time or energy anymore to keep updating it.
Here's the thing - the existence of this blog or the question of to keep or not keep it kept looming above my head like a heavy, dark cloud in the past few weeks.
This blog has evolved so much through the years - from being REAlity Bites, to Blissful Snapshots, ReaGene.Ninja, Flawsome, back to Blissful Snapshots again, Staycationerd (this never saw the light of day), then back to Blissful Snapshots for the nth time - whew!
And now I decided that it's time to let go of the Blissful Snapshots domain for good and shift to something else.
How to be Hue - a collection of life’s colors: stories of adulting, travel adventures, and personal reflections; a space for embracing change, finding joy in the little things, and navigating life’s unpredictable journey.
Edit: Apr. 27, 2025 - Who knew? From How to be Hue, I updated my blog name again to Mistwrite - something I feel more wonderful about, more aligned, more relatable. Here's to the wanderers and dreamers like me who live between the lines. Here, reflections drift like morning mist: soft, untamed, and endlessly moving.
Through personal stories, journal musings, and whispered adventures, Mistwrite captures the delicate, fearless act of wandering through life with an open heart and a pen in hand.
It’s not about arriving — it’s about writing the journey as it unfolds.
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| View from above |
I don't want to overthink things. I just want to blog like it's 2008 and this is also why I changed my blog template to something simple, minimalist, and fresh. All of these happened just a few hours ago.
Before finally deciding to continue the blog, I came across my super old blog from college. I kept writing on that blog until the first year of my corporate life. The nostalgia was real. Yes, I still remember the blog URL but I couldn't log in anymore since I forgot the email and password. But I figured that's also okay because now it remains a wonderful memory of my teenage years and early twenties.
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| My old college blog |
It was fun to go down memory lane. Old wordpress blogs used to have a blog roll on the side bar where you can add your friends' blogs or blogs you follow. I checked each blog to see which ones are still alive, and wow, a lot of them still are.
Some of my college besties' blogs are still up so I read through some of the last posts. WE WERE HILARIOUS - the kind of language and struggles we had back then were so raw. We were so unapologetic in a lot of ways. We graciously and consistently left comments on each other's blogs as if we didn't see each other in school or after class.
My loyal readers and commenters were my super friends Beans, Gold, Anj, and Corinne. There were also bloggers I've never met who became my online friends. I couldn't help but think how happy and fun that season of my life was.
I was also quite the blog addict. There was a time I'd blog daily and sometimes even twice in a day. I loved writing and I still do until now. That's probably why it's been my outlet every time I was happy, sad, mad, or going through something.
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| Photo by my friend Corinne |
After re-reading a couple of my own and my friends' blog posts, it was then that I realized how much blogging has been a part of my life. Suddenly, I didn't want to let go of this little thing of mine anymore. I don't want to delete my blog anymore. Who cares if I'm not posting everyday? Who cares if no one's reading or commenting anymore? What's important is I still get to keep the memories and write like I did before.
I will no longer let the pressure creep in. I will write when I want and share what I can. I just want to have something to look back to in the future to remind me of the years that passed. Because this will now serve mainly as my memory bank and creative outlet, I decided to let go of the pressure to purchase my own domain. I didn't want to pay the annual domain fee anymore. I just want this blog to remain forever or until the internet gods decide to wipe it off. I still have 300+ blog posts here and I'm keeping them all for memory's sake.
My old Wordpress blog in college is still alive until now, albeit already dormant. It's been inactive for many years - the last post was June 19, 2009 and after that I was able to retrieve my log-ins and posted another one on November 18, 2011 just to update whoever's still reading my blog that time (which is also gone with the wind now).
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| My supposed-to-be final entry |
I wanted to be in a platform where I can write in peace. I'm not planning to monetize at all. I also don't plan on building a community or network. I just want to write to express myself and not lose my writing mojo. I don't want to forget my first love - writing. I still intend to share on socials but only when I feel like it. Anyone can read it.. or not. It's up to them. It's up to you.
A lot of my deepest and most private thoughts are in my physical or paper journals and I want to keep it that way, but I still want the comfort and ease of writing online especially for long posts like this. I deleted a few Facebook and Instagram pages, deleted X (Twitter), deactivated Threads for good, and made it one of my goals this year to quit doom-scrolling and stay low key on social media. I don't have to announce that. I will post when I have something interesting going on, but I shall stop myself from posting or sharing just because.
I do have one special platfrom I'm still keeping active - it's my YouTube channel. I'm not even planning to be active on the Facebook account associated with it. I just want to keep making meaningful videos.
We'll see. February is gonna be short and before we know it, it's already December. Crazy I know. As for me, I will focus on self-care and keeping myself healthy.
Do you want to scavenge my college blog? Nah.
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| Until the next one |