Behind the Blog: Hums of Sum

My Sanctuary

It really took me a while to come up with a blog title that I was satisfied with.

Initially, my blog title (and url) was sumawesomeness. It was created when I was obviously a teenager who liked to think that I was DA BOMB. I was REALLY into the word – Awesomeness, and felt like I was all that. Looking back, it really just sounds like I was full of myself when I was remotely a good blogger (nor a consistent one at that).

As I said, it took me a while to come up with ‘Hums of Sum’. I wanted to have my blogger name – Summer – in the blog title of course. How did I come up with Hums of Sum? Oddly, I started googling for what rhymed with Sum and Summer. Hums of Sum rhymes, sounds pleasant and is fairly catchy & easy to remember (in hopes of people remembering my menial blog’s name), yes? Being a typically insecure and shy person, I rarely voice myself in a transparent manner. I speak only filtered thoughts (unless you get me tipsy enough to care less). So there, Hums… amusingly accurate.

What comes after…

A tagline. Maaan, a blog title was enough to have me racking my brain, a TAGLINE too?

Of course, I WANTED a witty, smart and unique tagline (who doesn’t). For me, the tagline should be what the readers would expect from me, it should encapsulate who I am/want to be as a blogger. Perhaps from my many thoughts, I did have one… but my mind works at mysterious times – my best ideas come to me at the most inconvenient times. These times are mostly when I’m showering, in an exam… basically any time or place where I had nothing to jot my ideas down. Pfft, I wish I could just file them away but my mind has a pretty shitty storage facility – I don’t have the best memory.

For the time being (and the sake of this blogging101 task), allow me to settle with this:

“You don’t have to understand here to be here.”

It’s a zen-ish thing.

I have always loved philosophical sayings/quotes that really make you think. Recently, I’ve been rewatching NBC’s Life which unfortunately had a short life span of 2 seasons. The main character, Charlie Crews, would spew such mind boggling one-liners which is part of his Zen teachings. I would highly recommend this show (especially if you are a Damien Lewis fan!), the dialogues really makes you think… and it has comical moments too.

*Unfortunately, the theme I’m currently using does not support taglines… This calls for a re-vamp of my blog! So, stick around and give me some feedback when that happens!

“You don’t have to understand here to be here.”

Sometimes, you might not understand it here at the moment, but you have to experience it as part of the journey to appreciate it later when here becomes where you were.

So, this is an open invitation to anyone and everyone (to you!) on my journey of finding self- contentment and happiness by simply being me. You may not relate to it all, some of my interests may not be yours, but I still hope you are here to stay to give me your take on things.

Simply here,
Sum.