Introduction

 Hello everyone 

This blog acts as a side project on keeping my skills of writing and grammar upto a certain level through practice as well as giving me a certain reminiscence down the years when I look back (Something like a time-capsule). I will try to Post each week atleast one article usually pertaining to the 150 Writing Prompts if I don't get any inspiration. My goal is to write around 50 articles a year for as long as it is feasible. This is the start of something I hope stays for a time long enough for me to look back on this post and wonder "What was I even doing back then?" or it could also be a sort of a "Letters to my older self" blog. I haven't decided yet. I will just keep writing and moulding it according to the feel and mood I have.

So welcome.

We'll start with an introduction which is not a very easy thing to do for me as I have two faces- one I show to others and one I keep to myself. Recently I have gotten so used to pretending that I have forgotten who I actually am and that is boderline Dissociative. Okay that got really heavy, let us begin simply. 

My name is Amlan Kumar Parhi and I am a 20 year old trying to figure out what is going on with his life. My preferred pronouns are He/Him (Very important to state these I have figured) and I am constantly going through existential crises past 3 years, but that's a story for another time.

I have several hobbies which I am highly passionate about- enough to make me pursue them as my career regardless of the economic stability it provides. It is enough to make me pursue them but I don't due to familial and peer pressure. I love to play different musical instruments including Guitar, Synthesizer, Flute, Harmonica. I love to sing even though I know I am quite bad at it but my fire for music keeps me going. I love to solve puzzles such as Rubik's cube or other variants as well as crosswords and Sudokus. I like reading fantasy and fiction books involving murders and mysteries. I find books as an escape form the daily lives we live in. I love to read about archaeology and mythology of different civilisations. My favourite are the greeks but I like to read about the Aztecs and the Egyptians as well. 

These hobbies aside I like to collect intricate things which are mechanical in nature. I love collecting linking puzzles, boxes or things having interesting mechanical levers. A recent obsession of mine have been knives. I have been collecting unique phillipines' knives (called Balisongs) like karambit and butterfly knives as a hobby. I also love watches and the abstract concept of ever-eroding time. Oh wait that went somewhere it wasn't supposed to. 

My family consists of me(20), my sister(28) Amrita, my mother(54) Sasmita and my father(61) Akshay. This is a conservative and spiritual family ( not just religious ) with the exception of me. For some reason I turned out exceptionally different from the rest of my family and that sort of makes me feel suffocated talking to any of them. For one of the main reasons is that we do not share any similarities and they don't understand most of the time even though they try their best. I am not very close with any of them but I know I love them and they do so back.

I have a serious 5 year long relationship-excluding a slight gap in between -with a girl named Anoushka (I was going to to type "I have a girlfriend" but that didn't even begin to cover what kind of relationship I had so I apologise if the trailing sentence is a bit awkward). She is a really cool person. She makes wondderful art whether it be sewing, oil painting, pencil colors. She is passionate and has a fire for perfection. Though shy she has strong opinions and ideas. She is hilarious(sometimes xD), though I am funnier. She is the love of my life. Now usually I am very pessimistic and stop myself making absolute statements like the one aboe but I am trying to change myself and trust The Fates a bit. I love her with every cell in my body and despite having a bit of a rough patch (okay a little bit more than just a rough patch recently) I hope I end up with her.

I have one guy who I call my best friend. His name is Anirudh. I am friends with him only because he is rich. He is a degenerate who shares the exact same interests as well as the same craziness as I do. It is really fun to talk to him and no matter what I know I can count on him even if we haven't talked in a while or have had a fight. He always tries to help me though he isn't very good at it. Also did I mention he is rich ? He is rich. Incase future me has become a boring boomer(idk if this word still exists) this is called Irony and Satire. That Anirudh guy is awesome okay?!.

I call myself a pacifist and I don't like to physically hurt people, though enotionally destroying someone is fun for some reason. I should call myself sadistic then in some aspects. I love dogs and think they are the best creatures in nature and I have an inherent attraction towards coffee.

Anyway this is me and this is my first post.