Rekindling Age-old Ash

Hey Everyone

Hope you all are doing fine and in good health!

Well, I had this blog running roughly a couple of year’s back, and somehow it died as I occupied myself with a lot of things that starved the blog of much needed time and attention…especially since I have the tendency of spending at least an hour on a simple post, making sure I am making sense in good (or acceptable) English. The advent of facebook also accelerated the process, as it experienced a population boom that beats the earth’s in terms of percentage, with FB allowing me to detail my life (and look at others too) in a convenient and quick fashion.

Also, I just got back from a holiday in HK, and I have felt that I’ve been largely wasting thinking energy upon myself, coming up with thoughts in “aloof” prose that have not found any physical form to live down the ages. In short, I’ve been thinking without writing, “wasting eloquence” if I can put it in as humble a form I can. The chinese have a saying: “The worst pen beats the best memory”, and it’ll probably help to have a record of my thoughts to look at in the future.

In life, I tend to listen to others a lot, and I haven’t really found the time and setting when I can (at least) attempt to fully express my mind to others, regardless of how earnest they may be in finding out more about me. It’s no one’s fault at all. I admit right here that I am lousy at coming up with spontaneous descriptions on what I think or feel at most moments, and only able to do that when I’m alone or even writing (like now). Just seems like writing brings about a different palette of colors to paint our lives with, talking may be instant, but it’s a different way of communication, and I find that without writing, I will be unable to express more detailed and perhaps more expressive areas of my life from the inside. You can’t cook nice curry with a frying pan.

So I’ll try to just start this blog again, and not for the narcissistic ideal of “showcasing myself” to the world, but just as an area to give my thoughts form, perhaps to truly seek to better communicate the “going-ons” in my life to others (if they are even interested haha), and to act as a platform to open myself up to God and the Holy Spirit’s guidance. In life, I do find that we all (or at least I) have the need to spend time away from the hussle and bussle of life, to reflect upon our inner condition, and truly come into fuller knowledge of the bigger picture (God’s will for us in life, spiritual health etc). It’s too easy to be mixed up with the rush of life, and miss out on what is truly critical in our lives…spiritual fruit being one of them (Galatians 5:22).

Hope this is not another flash in the pan, and welcome aboard if you’ll like to tag along this journey.

Take care and God bless,

Joshua