I Am Eighty!

Yipppeeee! I Am Eighty!

I know most eighty year olds don't react or celebrate in this way. But this is not the announcement of my eightieth Birthday or anniversary or anything. This is the eightieth post on my blog.

I wrote my first post on this blog on Friday, November 12, 2010. Today 3years, 2 months and 15 days later I am euphoric to be writing the eightieth.

Just to check on the date of when I wrote my first post, I did an archive search. It was interesting to see how I have written over the years. The blog started with all the excitement of a new project at hand. After a month I had forgotten all about it.

Soon came 2011. I wrote a post every two or three months. Still not very regular.

Then something happened. With 2012 I decided to make a difference. Though not regularly but I was posting, at least once every month. Soon once became twice and then I lost count. I even posted many times in a single day. Talk about going full throttle.

The readers who have been there since the beginning, ones who have joined later and others who keep visiting it on and off - Thank you All.

Allah, thanks for being there to guide me as I type away. Without You, I am nothing.

The eightieth is all about oak, as it signifies how far one has come.

As I celebrate the Oak post, I am reminded of my promise to those who commented on my Golden Jubilee post. The promise holds good and I will soon dedicate a post to each of you.

Until next time
Oak-ly yours
Fatima
                           

Happy Golden Jubilee

I rarely depended on others to acknowledge my achievements, so let me go ahead and give myself another pat on the back. Congratulations to dynamic Me for my 50th post on the blog...

And what better an occasion too. My Blog's Golden Jubilee coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College & Hospital, Aligarh Muslim University, India. That is the college where I study. Love serendipity.

Let me take this opportunity to thank those who have helped me come this far.
All thanks to Allah for the talent He has blessed me with. I can never thank Him enough, His bounty is limitless.
Thanks Mum, Dad, Ayesha & Imran for all the times you have been at the receiving end of my random writings. Ayesha, Thank you for the wonderful blog interface and for being my PRO. I wouldn't have come this far. Also Thank you for putting up with my "suicidal" poetry.
Thanks Rashid Mamma because you have helped me write when I thought English creative writing was an art I would never learn.
Thanks to all my English teachers. There were those who said I was too science oriented to write creatively. Then there were those who said my writing lacked edge. There were some who said may be prose but poetry was not meant for me. Then there were others. There were some who helped me, nurtured my talent and showed me newer horizons. Thanks to all of them. My experience would be incomplete even if one of them hadn't been there at the right time.
Thanks to all my inspirations. Some know who they are and which posts they have inspired while others don't. To everyone, Thanks.

And thanks to those who made this blog a success - my Followers & my Readers. Thanks to all those who read the blog as they have no other way to stop my pestering. And to those who read the blog without me having to tell them anything,  thanks for being there.

Also a request to all my readers and followers out there... Leave comments for me. Tell me what you think of a particular post. Your thoughts add to mine.

Gratefully Yours
Fatima Khan