The Semblance of a Start
The journey leading up to this blog seeing the light of day - rather, the pixels of your screen - is a long, twisty one. A lot of going back and forth, as an overthinking teenager rightly does, and a lot of figuring out how the internet works... I am just kidding, it was not as melodramatic. The idea was brewing inside my head for a while, having been exposed to similar endeavours from people around me, and on a fine New Year's day, my body filled with the energetic rush of dopamine that hits on a January 1, I created mrynaldaby.com.
It took a bit more than clicking on an icon to get this running, I must admit. I was shook when I realised there was more to the web than Chrome and Safari, and that it actually is a blank canevas to the digital artist, a crispy log to the woodworker, perhaps, a clear road to the race car driver. There is a lot that is hidden behind the billions of lines of code that make up the biggest tool humanity has ever known.
As I begin my journey of navigating this daunting, towering figure that is the web, I keep being struck with awe from how majestic the human mind is. This blog, as you will come to know, is the beginning of "something". I don't know what yet, but that is for me to find out over time. I relate this experience with that scene from the film Titanic, at the very beginning of the journey, out into the freezing seas of 1912 Southampton. As the Captain blares to his Chief Mate: "Take her to sea, Mr Murdoch" and ensues the staccato rhythm of the ship's engine getting its first drips of oil into its cylinders; the gurgles of a masterpiece of engineering... The Semblance of a Start.
This blog is meant to beautify the simplest things in life, to start what I was meaning to do for years now: to start something. There will be times when gloomy alleyways, in the likes of Diagon Alley, known for its hubbub, will be visited, and times when life will quite simply be celebrated through the everlasting power of words.
I welcome you on this journey. Let us Start...
