Blog status

Assalamu-alaikum, and greetings to all.

I can remember my first blog - started in 1996. A set of statically updated html files for friends and family. Freshly out of school and in the work force for the first time, a new father - during the dot com bubble, I was anxious to stay in touch with those that had touched my heart. In late 2000, I wrote my own blogging software - immature and crude by todays standards, but enough to let me write about opinions instead of simple status updates. And in 2004, a migration to a fully featured blogging platform.

It was a long time ago, and that blog ran for almost 8 years. Hundreds of posts - thousands upon thousands of words - my heart, my thoughts spilt out for everyone to see.

This isn't a post about my history on the web, for surely, I will be forgotten as quickly as anyone else -> what it is about though is change.

And much like this specific blog, I wrote to help me heal. To help me cope with what was happening in my life - a life full of blessing masha'allah, and a life of hardship - not 'blast your village to bits' or 'lose your family in a hurricane' hardship, but a hardship enough for me to just barely make it through - alhamdu-lillah.

But like the previous blog, there was a time to shut it down - a time when a transformation occurred that dictated seclusion and introspection. And out of my divorce came the need to write and a new blog.

Again, I wrote to help me cope, hoping to touch people along the way, to help make their lives a bit easier/more-enjoyable, and to foster community. Allhamdulillah - I think that's what's happened here.

But like at the end of the first blog, I have gone through a major change again. Those who know me well, know that it is a good change, and that insha-allah, I will continue to grow and develop as a human being, as a father, as a son, a brother, a brother-in law, a husband. Please, pray for me insha-allah.

But for now, the need to write publicly is gone, and with it comes another seclusion.

Until our paths cross again, I ask for your prayers and best wishes, and the hopes that we are all successful in this life and the hereafter insha-allah. Ameen.

With love,

SingleMuslimDad