✍️ Blogging After 60

✍️ Blogging After 60

Why I Write, Even When My Fingers Are Slower Than My Thoughts

Some people run marathons after retirement.
Some learn gardening.
I… learned how to blog.

Not because I planned to.
But because one day, my stories no longer wanted to sit quietly in my memory.
They asked to be written.
Even if slowly.
Even if awkwardly.
Even if I had to look up how to add a border in CSS five times.

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💬 I Wasn’t a Writer. I Was a Banker.

I didn’t grow up writing essays for fun.
I grew up writing loan papers.

Financial projections. Industry outlooks. Risk ratings.
Every word had to be precise. Every number had to answer to someone.

And yet, that discipline — that habit of thinking through every paragraph —
became the foundation for something I never expected:
spiritual storytelling.

📚 From Hidden Notes to 400+ Blog Posts and Kindle Books

It started quietly.

I wrote an eBook on Umrah — not to publish, just to preserve what I felt.
I shared it with my family and a few close friends.

Then they said, “You must publish this.”
I hesitated… but eventually, I did.

Now, Alhamdulillah:

• Over 400 blog posts live on blog.aara.cloud
• Over a dozen eBooks are published on Amazon Kindle

Not bad for someone who once struggled to let go of Lotus123. 😄

⌨️ Typing Isn’t What It Used to Be

My fingers are slower now.
Sometimes the idea comes, and by the time I find the right word… it has already turned into something else.

But maybe that’s part of the blessing.
Because now, I write with more intention.
More patience.
More gratitude.

What used to be typing is now almost like dhikr.
A kind of remembrance — not just of Allah, but of the journey He gave me.

🖥️ The Tools Have Changed, But the Heart Hasn’t

I used to write with a Sharp typewriter.
Then DBase. Then Lotus123.
Then Word. Then CSS. Then HTML for EPUB.

Now? I’m learning Medium, Calibre, and maybe one day, even Substack.
Not bad for someone who once resisted Excel.

But the real tool isn’t digital.

It’s the niyyah.
The intention to share something that might help even one person see their own journey more clearly.

💡 Why I Write Now

• To honor memory — like my father’s daily walk from the mosque.
• To organize experience — like how I wrote my UmrahPlus series.
• To remind myself — that barakah isn’t just in prayer… it’s in expression.
• And to leave something behind — not for fame, but for family.

One day, my children or grandchildren might read this blog and whisper,
“Eh, Atuk pun tahu coding?”

🤲 Du‘a for the Writer in All of Us

“O Allah, let every word I type be sincere.
Let it carry light beyond the screen.
And if it helps even one soul —
count it as a seed in my akhirah.”

Aamiin