I am sitting in the car, somewhere on our way to Jaipur, in the Rajasthan area, India. Thy Nefelibata comes to my mind, I have not posted anything for a month before coming here. It just happened, I suppose I needed a break, get silent for a while. I like silence now and then.
As days go by in India, memories of the blog dissipate, but at the same time the urge to share, to express myself, comes back. Still, I am not feeling ready to say that I had found the blog’s raison d’etre. Do we need a reason exist anyway?
Some reasoning comes to my mind: Most things do acquire shape with time and perseverance, the blog kind of-just started. There is no need of a specific reason to write, I do have it already. It gives me joy! And that is enough.
India was a fantastic experience (a whole set of different stories), and as time passed by, I got more and more silent. It was not magic or nothing, just the normal way things go when I get out of my context, things change, perspective about things changes. Time washes out my questions, but still, I felt the need to re-invent the blog or to wash it all off and start again. Be careful what you wish for!… They say!
I got back in Peru after a long journey (much longer than what I wished for, but that is also another story).
The blog? Oh! The blog!
Days after my arrival I log in _more than a month since the last time I had a look at it had gone by_ only to find that the blog had been hacked and that all it was showing was a threatening warning saying that the site could be dangerous. What?!
See? Be careful with what you wish for.
After asking various people and doing research, we get to know that many blogs had been attacked during my absence, including some much older than Thy Nefelibata and with much more information. The thing was, my wonderful website developer and I had never thought this would happen to us, so, we had not backed up our info.
Secretly, inside of me, there was a feeling of relief… for some reason, I wanted to begin from scratch again _as I did in many ways after such an inspiring trip and as I tend to do now and then_ so, _as my friend Saima said_ the hacker had hacked my dream: Thy Nefelibata needed to be completely deleted and built again, from scratch. Past is past. We can always have new beginnings :).
So, well, we got back on track now,
Anyway, I love blank canvas where I can start scratching again!
Welcome again!
Besos,
Carola
Footnote aside: Yes, some interviews and notes (specially some where wonderful people took part) got lost and we would love to get them back… little by little…
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