#1: This is your sign

.. to do that thing you’ve been meaning to do 💫

Dear reader,

I’ve been sitting on my introductory newsletter (this right here what you’re reading) for many months now. All I had to do was start. Write a few lines, say hi and bam! I have a newsletter. Why did that take forever?

I overthought it, obviously. Like we tend to. I questioned its very existence a thousand times… who am I to have a newsletter and what do I have to share with the world? Well, only SO MANY THINGS. I have stories that aren't fitting a 9 x 16” 24 hour expiry, that photos itself can't do justice to and that need so many words that only a newsletter sounded fit.

Then.. I overthought the format. What am I doing differently, how is this going to be exciting, why should anyone subscribe? But it’s quite simple, really. It’s just going to be a bunch of things that made me want to start this in the first place: exciting personal projects (photos and stories), lots of things from the archives or making new archives right here with each newsletter (hence the name 📮), behind the scenes (of shoots or just life) and even song demos maybe, who knows?

Sometimes, I’ll just take a few pages from my life (quite literally) and talk about stuff. I’ve been journalling for as long as I can remember, so there is a lot of material to dig into! These letters might just be like journal entries - unfiltered and full of feelings… and I hope you can resonate with it.

How often would I be sending these out, you ask? Often enough, hopefully. Each one is going to be a surprise and I hope when you open it - it’s just the thing you need.

And that’s it. That was the first newsletter. There, I did it. You can too! Whatever it is that you have to do. This is your sign to. And that brings us to the end (also the best part) of this letter. Thank you for sticking till here! These are the ✨ signs ✨ that the universe (in the form of my dear friends) gave me in the past few weeks to write this. Shrey forwarded me a subscription email he had received from me in 2016! Back when I used to have a blog. The other email, received the next day, was Debjit’s newsletter on Substack that you must check. It’s called The Breather. Life truly is magic and I hope you can see some of it in the coming days.