Hey friends,
This issue is hard to write. I have taken a considerable break from Caesura due to variety of reasons like job overload, laziness as well as winter mood swings — usual stuff. I feel like I have lost my voice and it is a bit challenging for me to get into the flow again — I was publishing an issue per week for 10 weeks straight and it felt like a well-oiled machine, but now it seems like getting back to basics.
Which is, to be honest, a good thing. Going back to basics and mastering the fundamentals always helped me in the past to remember my past, reconsider the present and develop a better outlook for the future. In the case with this newsletter, I focus on why started writing it in the first place.
First of all, just because sometimes I feel like writing; secondly, it is a sort of an accountability report for each week, an attempt at intentional living, where writing helps to structure and make senses of otherwise long, boring and unremarkable weeks.
Thirdly, Caesura also pushes to seek the inspiration if I cannot find in the present moment — either by just going out and doing something fun, or researching and reading more, or just being more intentional in everyday living by observing and noticing those little things that otherwise we take for granted.
So it is really about finding the focus in the perpetually distracted life I lead. Writing helps to catch and document thoughts that are often ignored in my mind because the mind is always rushing and seeking the next excitement. These thoughts develop into ideas and sometimes into essay if I am lucky. If I am not, then I just let them be the way they are — raw thoughts shared with you, so the reader have a bit of a break from always polished and highly edited and filtered content that we are so used to on social media.
Again, the focus that I find through writing makes me want to live more intentionally and find harmony, rhythm and beat in the constant repetition of what is our everyday hustle. And by sharing it with you, I hope that it inspires you to be more intentional as well. And may be have a bit of fun. Or just have a quick 5 minute fun reading this before you close your email app and move on to the next exciting thing.
The long story short, going back to basics and taking a step back is a good thing to understand why you do the thing you do. The important part, once you gone through this exercise, is to continue the movement forward, one step a the time, at the pace you are comfortable with.
Anyways, if you are reading this, then you are still (thankfully for me) subscribed to Caesura, a newsletter by me, Adil, writing this with the hope that wherever you are, you are in the safe space, both mentally and physically, surrounded by people who care about you.
I will hit your inboxes few times before the year ends — see you then.
Adil