Hello readers! March has been quite real in the word ‘madness’. It’s been total madness over here. It started so calmly, so quietly. But it was only later on that I realized that it was the calm before the chaos. And it left me feeling useless and so out of place. For a few days I felt like I was doing absolutely nothing and time was just slipping past me. That’s when I started bullet journaling again, to remind myself that I wasn’t just whiling away the time. I was in fact doing something, however small that thing might be.

So March was in short busy. But busy in a good way. I submitted five papers (not typed but hand written), read a little more than the previous month, and wrote six poems in my journal. I also finished the zillionth edit on my novella, which is set to release in July. (Yes, I have finally set a date and decided on the title) If only Mosaic of Moments had a final cover now. I uploaded an article on editing on LinkedIn and created an audiobook of the first story from Girl Woman Goddess and uploaded it on YouTube.

Feels like I did something, right? I do too. Now, I do. But for a while I felt like I did nothing because it was just a few papers I wrote for so long and took the entire month to submit. The thing is, March has taught me something new on self-love. I often say I love myself and I do too. Only this month I learn that self-love just doesn’t come and stay. I have my own ups and downs, but most importantly, I need to learn to be a little gentler with myself. I think I have a tendency to be too hard on myself making me feel- worthless? Because even if I didn’t write those papers, some days I could just let myself be and relax. I could, right? I mean why do we tend to be so pressurized by productivity and end up ruining our health and minds? Some days we are just allowed to be than just running a race.

So, I will leave you with this thought. Tell me how often do you feel like you did nothing? Even though you might be cooking, cleaning, living, surviving, and turning up at your daily jobs? And what do you do when you feel that way?

If my blog has left you with some questions, I will leave you with some more from the story below- Tété-a-tété & Tea from Girl Woman Goddess. It is a story about a woman who sits down to talk with her cup of tea because she has no one to talk to, and ends up going down a memory lane. She keeps getting interrupted and is not even allowed that small cup of tea in peace. If you have the time do listen to it and share with your friends. Find out below if she does get that small cup of relish and what is it that she has stored carefully in her mind.

Short Story: https://youtu.be/YhsngRm_muE?si=gmKVRbaK8K87Oe8c

I am really not keen on promoting again and again but in case you want to read Girl Woman Goddess at once, you can read for free on KU here: https://amzn.in/d/4mg7TvQ