Those rush-hour blogging days are over now for me; but looking back to those early days, I think things are much better and healthier today all round. Yes, better because I spend more with my entire family once again: just as I used to do previously. I have the best of two worlds now, being mutually inclusive!

Healthier, too, especially because I eat and sleep and bathe more on schedule than at that time, when I seemed to have no time for all the normal social activities that other humans partake in on a daily or regular basis.

True, my lower feet would become swollen from edema caused by spending up to eleven hours per day in front of my computer blogging away. You see, I had felt that I had to use up all the hours of Internet time available to me because I wanted full value for my money.

Things got to such an extent that I would yell or snap at any member of my household who tried to encroach on my blogging time and space, even when these interruptions were done in all innocence. It was really that shameful and selfish of me.

“I think I can, I think I can, …” Just like a juggernaut train chugging and choochooing along the old rail tracks in a rustic setting, I practically knocked myself out each day making sure that I had all my posts ready simultaneously.

Funny now, it reminds me of an old joke about the very expensive Rolls Royce Camargue luxury automobile: it was said, “it can go down the hill but cannargue get up the next”. It was really a performance issue, trying to meet up with the demands while really lacking the necessary staying power to do so. 

That was then, this is now: I spend just about five hours now behind my desk except at the weekends, when I put in just double that. I post only the number that I can handle or accommodate comfortably each day. What brought about this volte-face? 

You know, it’s a bit of a rather humorous paradox really. I took a one-week break to get better and more regular Internet service installed and rushed back to writing again in order to make up for the blogging hiatus. Boys and Girls, was I in for a very pleasant surprise or what!

I pressed the “CREATE A POST” button only to find the usual message and ration waiting for me: “ 5 posts remaining…” Stupid, dumb, naïve me: I had expected to find a deficit of about 30 posts recorded! So, don’t go knocking yourself off your normal schedule in these early rounds of your blogging experience. Life really is for the living.