Hold Up a Minute — Explained. Hello! So by some chance of luck, or…
By: Hold Up A Minute
Tags: Newborn, Blog, Hold Up, Newbies On Fire, Intro

Hello! So by some chance of luck, or because we forced you to, you have stumbled upon this blog. So, like every other pretentious blogger, allow us to introduce ourselves and this newborn blog.

Hold Up a Minute, is a blog with no theme or organisation, whatsoever, much like the brain of the authors. “Hollupaminute!” is something we all say when we want to rethink and go on a rant about something offensive or weird we just heard. That is exactly what we are going to do with this. We are going to think and rant about anything and everything under the sun and beyond because we can. Free speech is a right and we are here to exercise it. After reading our posts you might curse whoever decided that all beings deserve to voice their opinion, no matter how dumb it is. And that is a valid reaction to our posts. Mild hysteria, anger, general frustration and a little shot of dopamine may also occur.

Jokes and extreme self-deprecation apart, we started this blog as a creative outlet. This pandemic and quarantine have gotten the best of us and we are doing something we’ve put off for too long, giving very true reasons like “I don't have enough time” or “I am too busy”. Were we too busy mindlessly scrolling through Instagram or staring at the wall for 2 hours? Maybe! But that’s none of your business so stay out of it and stop attacking us!!! But truly, with all the time in the world and nothing to do, we had to stop making excuses and use our 4.5 collective brain cells to try and have one creative thought. And now, you’re reading that!

So who are we? Most of you probably know us, because other than close friends and our parents, who else will read this? Hi Ma! But just to be in the clear, here is a glimpse of the 2 authors of the blog.

Hi! I am Shreya. A 20-year-old female human being who has somehow managed to complete her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology. Okay, I technically haven’t completed it yet. But I have written all my exams, submitted my thesis and defended it. Did I succeed in all that? I don’t know yet but I have finally trained my anxious little brain to not stress over it. I currently live in Madrid, because I was supposed to work in a lab here to complete my final project, but you all can probably guess how that went. I was locked in my tiny apartment for 3 whole months, but now I can go visit parks at least. For all students, 2020 has been a bad year, but for anyone who decided to enrol in a student exchange program this year, you have my deepest, most personal sympathies. I have always wanted to start a blog but never had the discipline for it. So when Rahul, who I met in a camp btw, asked me if I wanted to start a blog with him, I immediately said YES! Hopefully, this co-working experience and the fact that I am now accountable to another person will help me stay committed to something for more than 2 weeks. And Hi! I am Rahul. A 20-year-old human from God’s own Country (Kerala, India) who is still in his days of the glorious, the most underrated college degree — Engineering. Fun fact about Indian Engineering students, we usually enrol in engineering and then decide what the hell should we do with our life. I get excited over new tech and I love Story Telling. What are the best ways to tell stories? Art, movies, photography, games, blog -you name it and here I am trying one of those things out with another nut-head Shreya. Between me and her, I think I am the calm one and she is the restless one. Still what good can we do if our billion-dollar ideas and thoughts are wasted without documenting it for the cyber archaeologists (yeah not a real thing as of now I guess) or the aliens in the future?

Our plan is to put out pieces we feel passionate about. Ranging from technology, science, entertainment to social commentary, we are going to try everything. Are we qualified to speak about any of the subject matter? No. Are we good at writing or expressing our opinions clearly? Also NO! So the only rational step, given our talents, was to start a blog and try to express ourselves as clearly as we can.

So follow us along on this journey. We don’t promise anything because if the expectation is set very low, even major disappointments will seem small. As we said before, this is a creative outlet and hopefully, we can use this to track our growth and journey as 2 college kids. Over the years, it is obvious that there will be a drastic change in both of us, from our perspective, opinions to the way we write and the values we hold dear. It will be hard to expose our unfiltered thoughts and be vulnerable and honest with our readers, but we promise to try. And if nothing else comes out of this blog, you, our dear reader, can at least get a glimpse of how others think, what their perspective on issues are; based on their biases and individual struggles. Given the global situation now, we could all use some change in perspective.

Until the next post, Adios!