Another month just passed by and even though I’m a week late for this monthly review, I couldn’t just not stop by and say hi, right?
So how are you guys doing? I hope you had a fine April. If you’ve read my previous monthly wrap-ups this year, you might remember that I said a lot of times that 2024 has been going too well for me. Despite my optimistic side, I always have this fear of my world turning upside down whenever life is going great. And guess what? April really tried its best to drag my fears to reality.
I’m not going to go deep into that now but I just want to say it’s okay, guys. Nothing new, at least. That’s life, after all. The good thing is that I’m back on my rollercoaster ride and it seems to be going up again so I’m looking forward to good things in May. If I just ignore a few things that depressed me the whole month, there were quite many things that I enjoyed throughout April.
Let’s take a look….
Movies/Books
12th Fail was the only new movie I watched this April and it was totally worth watching. I’ll probably rewatch it this month because having got our internals time table last week, I’m going to need some motivation to study. If you’re looking for a movie recommendation, 12th Fail will be a great option to add to your watchlist. And for those who’ve already watched this movie, I would really appreciate it if you could recommend more movies like this in the comment section below.
Talking about books, um, I didn’t finish any in April but started reading the Twilight series. I watched the movies a long time ago so I don’t remember much of the story so I thought reading the books would give me a more detailed tour of the series. Though I’m not sure if I’ll be able to read much in May, all thanks to my university for overloading us with assignments and stuff (the very reason why I was unable to post this earlier) but we’ll see how it goes.
Playlist of the month
I listened to quite a variety of music last month. From 90’s Bollywood to English songs in different genres. I listened to K-pop too but not as much as I usually do. I was mostly into Taeyong’s unreleased songs that he performed in his solo concert. He also shared a beautiful playlist on YouTube that helped me make my current playlist ‘The Cure’. Taylor’s TTPD just hits different this summer, and I couldn’t stop listening to her. Here are my top favorite songs of the month…
- Suna Suna – Shreya Ghoshal
- Everyone Adores You (quiet) – Matt Maltese
- 10 Minutes – Lee Hyori
- Self Love – Metro Boomin, Coi Leray
- Winter – Fazerdaze
- But Daddy I Love Him – Taylor Swift
- Deja vu – TXT
- Fortnight – Taylor Swift (feat. Post Malone)
- Hoshwalon Ko Khabar Kya – Jagjeet Singh
- My Love Mine All Mine – Mitski
- APE – Taeyong
- Down Bad – Taylor Swift
Blogging
I did better than last month. The number of posts published on my blog were the same as last month but the stats were higher (yayy!!). I also tried my best to interact more around the blogosphere and somehow managed to read the posts in my Reader every few days. So that’s a win-win for now. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do better in May because I’m already so occupied with assignments and seminars, I don’t know when will I publish my next post. But anyway, thank you so much guys for reading and interacting with the posts I published last month. You all keep me going!
April 2024…
At the end of the first week of April, we went on a family picnic trip, and to our joy, my cousin sister joined us with her kids. The place just felt so peaceful. Mountains and their rivers flowing into this big dam, and the trees… oh, I wish we could’ve stayed longer. But maybe the weather wanted us to leave quick because it started raining as soon as we decided to have lunch. But it was still fun. I will try to make a separate post on our rainy picnic day if I’m free this week.
Then on April 9, I got this notification from WordPress…
My whole blogging journey flashed in front of my eyes when I saw this. I’m so thankful to all of you. Thanks for being there. And now when we’re at this, I have to give you another news that I was supposed to tell in March but you know how great is my memory, I forget as usual, but here it is – Poorwa’s blog is 4 years old now. Crazy, isn’t it? But we made it so far guys.
Oh, I’m already getting in a good mood writing this. That’s the thing I like about doing these monthly wrap-ups. So another highlight of April was my mom’s birthday on 13. We planned to give her a surprise at midnight so the whole week we pretended we didn’t remember but Dad was so excited about it that he started practicing a song three hours earlier for her before we surprised her. It was probably the most hilarious and sweetest moment of the month for me lol.
I also got to spend some time with my school friends at a wedding. I hate to say this but to be honest, it was a very awkward moment. I was so happy to see them after such a long time but eventually realized that it’s not the same anymore. We’ve been distant from each other for so long now that we have nothing to talk about. Everyone said they feel the same way and it was just sad.
Now talking about my college life, I had a great time. I’m happy to tell you that I’m positive about regularly going to college again. Last semester, it just felt sick and I didn’t want to go at all. But things have been much better this semester, almost perfect. My friend circle has also expanded a little and it makes every day at college filled with laughter and joy when I’m with them.
On one hand, all these great things that happened to me in April, and on the other, my life took an unexpected turn that changed many things. When I was younger, I would always pass on whatever troubled me because I never believed in myself that I could handle those situations. But in the past couple of years, I’ve slowly learned to take care of things my way.
Even though sometimes I get so sick of it that I feel like running away but what I’ve learned from life is that we must face it. There’s no other way. It may hurt for a while but you will realize that you are strong enough to tackle it all, you’ve always been. And with that in mind, I’m moving forward. One step at a time, taking it slow, with me.
I hope time will bring better and happier moments for all of us. Until then, let’s keep swimming!
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