Cracking the Code

I’ve had two personal blogs. Brazil and Bombay. This one makes three.

Blondie in Bombay’s been post-less for months. Brasil? Years. 

I’m missing the blogsphere. Craving it.

Why haven’t I posted on either one? Well, for one blog, that was an easy question to answer. Geography. I don't live in Brasil anymore. 

Bombay though? Finally I figured out the obvious. When I chose geographic specific titles for my blogs, I thought I needed to share insights into those places. Into Brazil. Into Mumbai. Into how life was "different." Both blogs confined my writing and stifled my words so much I abandoned blogging. 

But why? Maybe it was because at times people in the U.S. have said, “But your life is so different,” and I allowed the internalization of those words to shape my ideas. To limit them.

In reality, life isn’t all that different living overseas. I teach. I run errands. I decorate a Christmas tree and I post a picture of my tree on Instagram just like everybody else.

Coming home to this makes my heart happy. #xmas

A photo posted by Megan Looney (@meganlooney05) on Dec 8, 2014 at 3:08am PST

When people in the U.S. talk about the police officer's dash cam karaoke of "Shake it Off" or the State of the Union address, I probably am talking about those same things too. Just like at home, some of those topics are more of the lunchroom banter than others. 

Sometimes it is different but for the most part, it’s the same. It’s about the people and experiences and ideas I have. That we all have wherever we are. The zip code or as they say in India pin code, shouldn’t dictate what I share.

Took me a while to sort that out. 

So cheers to a fresh blog. My blog. My words about what I want to say. One without a zip or pin (Hence the name of this post and also blog).

* For some reason this new blog makes me feel a little vulnerable. Understanding why that is has unintentionally delayed me to publicly share my first post. Not asking for anything, just putting those exposed feelings out there.

** All of my Brazil and Bombay posts will have this as their home. Eventually.