I am so happy to join this iLand and having started blogging. I feel the purpose with which I had joined it two months back has been met to a great extent. Frankly speaking, I started blogging to vent out a lot of things that used to keep whirling in my mind and made it heavier and heavier in absence of a convenient medium of ex-pression and discussion. I do have a great family around me, but none seem to get disturbed with the weird thoughts, I presume, that I get. Or may be they get but they too keep it to themselves as I do. So I do not dare to go and discuss such things with them, nor with anyone else in my small circle of friends & colleagues! Now that is another reason I have a very very small circle of friends – the wave length and frequency of our thoughts do not match! I found myself a misfit among them so very often. 

But after spending two months here I have discovered that probably I am not as unusual or weird as I presumed myself to be some time back. While passing through several other iLands I discovered there are lot many other iLanders who have gotten thoughts like me at some point or other and have discussed it in this wonderful platform. This has indeed boosted my confidence in myself and at the same time I am able to lighten my heart and mind by expressing myself. Today I have the belief that it doesn’t matter to be slightly a different individual compared to your immediate circle of acquaintances. There are many others in the planet who thinks like you and its normal to be little beyond normal. Probably something like many people have average IQ, some have it above average, few far above average and some below average. So we should celebrate our uniqueness in whatever way we are.

I must acknowledge the posts reading which I had this realization. I might not write it the way the writers of those posts have done, which is their uniqueness, but I could quite relate to it and have experienced those thoughts which have led these set of people to write it so. Unfortunately, I do not remember all of them right now baring the three which I read recently:

Splitting of self by ice candy

Dhool by vivek

Why? By d

Apart from that I have met some wonderful people in Sarath & Nandita who have stirred my long idle brain to make some serious thoughts on certain areas thereby renewing my inquisitiveness. The whole experience has turned out to be quite refreshing to me amidst the otherwise routine and monotonous life. I can quite well appreciate now why people are advised to cultivate other interests and hobbies in their lives apart from the usual work they do. I thank my God for prompting to me this great idea when I was going through an all time low in certain aspects of my life and even wondered if I needed to see a psychiatrist! I had always loved reading & writing and cannot be enjoying it more. I look forward to reading many more wonderful pieces, in original and reflecting genuine thoughts and ideas in the days to come which I am sure would resemble many of mine.

I need not go to a psychiatrist anymore.

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Dear iLander friend, your comment would help me become a better person. Thank you.