Greetings to all of you my subscribers, as well as those who check my page on and off for any updates as well as whenever I do have anything new to post. It has been a while since I've actually posted something new on this page. This is a post which is slightly different from the posts that usually come off from this blog. It is more about 'Rediscovering The Perceptionist' and what I stand for through my blog posts. I do hope to make these minutes you spend reading my blog worthwhile while you take the time to get to know more about the thinking behind these blogs as well as the person behind it.
For those of you who are curious to know the 'writer in the making', I'm a young and a passionate teenager currently in my final years of pursuing a business degree in Travel and Tourism in one of the colleges in Goa. For a pretty long time, there has always been a voice from within me, that yearned to be heard and was always buried in the depths of my heart for years and for ages together. It was not until through our family interactions and outings did I discover a person to whom till date I have discovered my love for blogging- she is someone whom I can definitely credit to have actually influenced me to create my own blog- her name is Abigail Mathias, a part-time journalist as well as a school teacher. In my days in school, I used to write articles for the newspaper on and off on issues that had to do with general issues of the community such as 'Letters to the Editor' for anything related to road-safety and the lives of commuters and passersby. In the whole process, however I came to the realization that apart from these articles on general issues, other types of articles such as any short stories or essays would at times not get published due to the fact of word limits- and that is something pretty common in newspapers, for that matter in Goa as well (as around that time I was in UAE). This is something that I personally felt restricts creativity, specially the passionate writer who knows no bounds to express his or her ideas and views. This is one reason that I would attribute for starting my blog. I was also going through a phase in my life- a cultural shock where I just couldn't accept the place where I moved into. I had moved to Goa, about two years back and just couldn't accept the fact that I had to do my BBA in Goa- a completely new environment with everything so different from the place where I was born. While I could keep complaining and telling my family about how unhappy I was to move to Goa, from UAE- a really bright and vibrant city to a state that signs off for the night by 7 PM, that wasn't the preferred method at one point and I really needed to find a way to turn my frustration which was slowly creeping into depression into something creative and better to keep myself positive and happy. So I started the blog 'The Perceptionist' initially focused on my life in Goa- the positive side such as the field trips, the customs of the people of the state before I could discover a whole new way of writing short stories based on nature weaved out of my thoughts or the intense emotions which I experience and used this as a platform to turn into something great and something that will fill you with wonder when you read them. I have also written a few articles in addition to this on my blog related to things that affect us such as 'Social Media' and 'Mental Health' specially in view of the current pandemic situation where we have all been forced to confine to our homes, and the majority of our life has gone online.
I initially started out with one blogpost-'Time Out In Goa' with little hopes that it would lead to many new posts and become my favorite hobby in the making. It has been a really successful activity that I ventured out into, and I do look forward to growing it in the near future. Also I had just recently started a new blog-'Bryce's Corner' focused mainly on Goan culture as well as my travels to different places around the world which I do hope to add many more experiences in the near future.
I hope you all enjoyed this writeup of mine and discovered a little bit more about me and the blog!!! :)
PS: I'm attaching the link along with the post of Abigail Mathias's blog- the person to whom I credit or rather I would consider as the inspiration for starting this blog
https://www.abioriginal.com/ (Please do check out her posts)
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