The Girl with Yellow Shoes

Hello there! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? 

If you’ve been following me from earlier (special shout out to my Day Ones), thank you for staying with me all these years. Can you believe that it’s been almost eleven years since we first started? Wow. 

If you’re new, thank you for being here and I hope that somewhere in these words, you find some sunshine.

I started this blog, as I said, over a decade ago. I haven’t posted in years because I’ve been struggling a lot and the number of unfinished blogs on my laptop and notes on my phone are proof of it. When I first started writing, I was teaching people my age, some older and even less were younger. When I stood in front of a class, it felt like I was talking to my friends- lifting each other up with our conversations. And those conversations brought inspiration for so much of what I used to write back then. Things have since changed and so too have the demographics of the people sitting in my class. The age gap continues to widen each year. And that’s okay. Things are ever changing and that was the one thing I overlooked whenever I tried to write in the recent past.

I have changed.

The person who wrote those blogs in 2014 is different to the person sitting typing this one now. At my core I’m the same. But experiences would have changed me and life would have happened in such a way that some of the things that I used to write about before no longer holds my interest as it once did.

And I consider that a blessing.

With that said, allow me to (re)introduce myself.

I’m a proud Trinbagonian whose favourite food group is doubles. I’m not an astrology superfan but I do believe I have a lot of popular Libran traits. I believe in the power of energies and the importance of surrounding yourself with good energy. I love my family and the people I choose to keep in my life- I know it’s cliché but I really do mean it. I love cricket and I’m still not a West Indian fan- but I will always support Trinidad Cricket Team. Always. Shah Rukh Khan will forever be one of my first loves and the reason why I think that someday someone will want dance around a tree with me.

When I first started this blog, I felt like being a teacher defined me completely. I still think that my profession is noble but it isn’t what defines me. I still rant about things from time to time- West Indies cricket being one of them, but I’ve also learnt that sometimes I should just say okay. I’m now a cat mom and I cannot wait to talk about my son at some point with you. At the time of starting this blog, I used to eat potato, vegetables and chicken in so many different ways. Now, your girl out here making pasta from scratch so we’re learning, growing, sometimes thriving, mostly surviving.

I still want each blog post to be a snippet of me, a puzzle piece of some sort. But I’m still very much like the West Indies cricket team that I complain about so much- I cannot be depended on to post regularly. However, I will try my best, unlike them.

So here’s to you, thank you for being here and thank you for sharing this journey of self-(re)discovery with me.

xx