When I started this blog on August 24, 2006 little did I think I would be writing it for so long. It’s been a pleasure, albeit painstaking at times. I’ve written about many things I wanted to write, and still haven’t written about many others. I’ve been saying and trying various things here.
I’ll not make any resolutions, except that I’m happy to have found the readers who are happy to have the blog’s RSS in their bookmarks and to tolerate occasional absences this year. Indeed, I have worked so much this year, both as editor, translator, and interpreter, not to forget tuition, that if I think about it I’ll begin to wonder how I manage to make time for all of this. I’m also making new friends, reuniting with old ones, and even have time to look after my pets!
One thing I did notice over the years is the proof of “when it’s right it just clicks“. We occasionally stir ourselves up to something we might not even need. The good news is that Nature, or God or whatever you prefer to call it, seems to really know better. Moreover, it sometimes refuses to let you have it. No matter how you push it’s just not giving you what you want. If you’re in your wits, you stop doing the same thing in the hope to get a new result. You take time. It may indeed take time to arrive, but when it does, it may take a double check to realise that this is now indeed what you have wanted. Because usually it is exactly that, yet in a different guise. It takes skill, or ingenuity, or intuition to recognise the arrival, that’s why sometimes we miss it entirely. And keep on searching for the form, whereas what we want is the content.
How to know if it’s what you’ve been waiting for? It just clicks. You feel unusually comfortable and at peace. It inspires you. It goes for work, friendships and love relationships, too. I admit that this anniversary I’m the happiest I’ve been since the year I started this blog. Happiness has its bearing on blogging process, as I’ve found myself in the whirlwind of projects and opportunities. Plus, it’s been two years we’ve been trying to slightly redecorate the flat, and I’m good at painting surfaces, so that takes time also.
One thing I know is that I want to continue making the difference that I hope I have made to my readers over the years. And I hope my happiness can spill over from screen into your lives.
With love,
Julia
Me taking about life and science with Igor the Parrot at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, July 2013.
