RM Hewett is Welcome Here

“An editor, prolific writer and fast becoming a wonderful friend.”

It's with immense pleasure and gratitude that I welcome RM Hewett to The Selves of Us. When I started writing on this Blog, I had little idea of what, where and how this was going to go, but the inner drive eventually propelled me to ignore the fear and self doubt gnawing at the edges of the idea. The incredible need to heal and find an equilibrium again was a way for the self to seek, navigate, survive and get over the greatest turmoil that life hurled my way in the form of a deep, dark depression.

Part of the reason why the Blog never hopped into the social media bandwagon before now was the self-consciousness of not having an editor. And if you're thinking who still talks like that in 2026... well, no thank you. I'll wait for the next or two generations of AI editors— they still need more play.

A prolific writer, a wonderfully put-together human being, highly intelligent and as light and cheerful as they come, I couldn't have asked for a better editor. Our work ethics are on a par and it's quite something to work together— mixtures of creativity, fun, structure and, so far, a little chaos if you can imagine such a thing. And the teacher in him always comes out but in a way you only realise later on. RM Hewett has packed a lot doings in his life, and I'm learning a lot from him.

Of course, the other reason why there was zero social media presence, is the unfortunate fact that it tends to overwhelm me in ways hard to describe. The easiest thing is to say it's hard on almost all my senses, especially that of hearing, and I suppose my cognitive abilities to play catch up. Everything reels by fast, usually disconnectedly and the flashes of colour, sound and movement wreak havoc on my sense of comprehension, often leaving me reeling from a sense of disorientation.

But because it's almost impossible to grow as an online writer, without social media, we now have a Facebook Page of the same name The Selves of Us, and though I fumble through, like this Blog and everything else in life, things can only get better with time.

We've been offline for a few weeks now, stories abound and they will find their way to these pages in due course.

Today I celebrate the writers, storytellers and creatives in all of us. Today I'm honoured to have a prolific, amazing writer share not only a platform with me but ideas, discussions, lessons and friendship along the road of Life. Humans have long left their stories on this Earth, we still continue to do so— and long may we. Resilience is the triumph and upward spirit of Life.

For our Sunday post, RM Hewett has written a short but fitting piece for us as his introductory piece.

Till we meet again.

“PS: A Very Happy Birthday to my most beloved boy 'Mr Peabody'— life will only get better.”