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| Artwork by Tarek Chemaly |
Oh heaven help us. You know one year I actually forgot my own birthday? Well, in the plethora of life, I have forgotten this blog's date of inception! January 11th 2007. This means I have been blogging and getting on people's nerves for 18 years and more. So basically, this blog is now an adult.
I am truly trying to think what this all means. No no, not just the numbers which oddly are still here, even if as of late I am exceptionally busy, or because the source material got less and less due to the ad slump we are facing. I mean, somehow, I feel there is a shift, one which comes with age, the blog and mine's. I worry less and stress less and can't give a toss less. I feel more relaxed, a little more trusting that things will end up where they ought to end up without the histrionics from my side.
Also, I am becoming more and more, overtly a "mentor" which I have always was, but now people (youngsters truth be told) call me so overtly. I was always generous with advice, but now they label it for what it is. Which I find a bit... tender? I am not sure if this is the word.
Of course with time, separating the personal me and the public me becomes a little difficult even if I try to do it. I still want to keep a part of me hidden and no up for public consumption. Despite the many projects I am helming at this point - even if teaching has been left off the menu due to different reasons. But who knows what the future can bring, even if no classroom dispensing knowledge and information is part of my DNA.
And this blog goes on, with all the eyeballs and numbers attached to it. Which makes me exceptionally proud as to why would anyone still be - 18 years later - interested to read my opinion and thoughts about advertising and communication at large.
But the machine never stops, there is even a new book coming out soon which I am co-authoring (hello Ali and Geoana!) to add to my growing collection of authored books, and this blog will soon have a strategic partner as well. I am not just "teasing" projects no, I am simply trying to say that the engine is still going in full gear.
Exciting things are ahead.
Ah to be 18 and young!
OK, the blog is, I am not :)