HOL in Oct/Nov: Work Romance, Religious Conversions and Moving out
After two months, we are back!
Welcome to the final days of December. The team have disappeared from these reviews for two months due to personal events (I got married!) and multiple meditation retreats.
1 in 4 readers faced conversion attempts at work
While these two months have been crazy busy on our end, we managed to publish articles that covered saucy topics from Workplace Attraction to religious conversion. Interestingly, 69% of HOL readers have been experience conversion attempts in public areas while 55% were approached in schools. 1 in 4 were approached at work.
It made me think deeper of how we can find better ways of saying no and also undoing social pressures to convert because your boss is of another faith.
We also covered hot topics like if it is unfillial to move out of our parents’ home before marriage. I personally enjoyed the article by Mabel on being Single and Dating in your late twenties. Trying to apply Dhamma to dating is hardly talked about and Mabel pours her heart into the article.
Gratitude & Growth
As we edge towards the end of the year, there is much to be grateful for at HOL. We started the year not knowing how we could continue sustaining this initiative financially & in terms of human effort. The uncertainty was nerve wrecking. However, through the year, many donors came forward to support our work both in terms of money and articles.
As a lean core team of 3 people, it would be a lie to say that it is easy to keep HOL running with 3 content pieces every week. But here we are standing strong with the help of many friends!
From a monthly readership of 700 at the start of 2022, we have slowly grown to 1,200 readers!
We know how easy numbers can hide away meaning, so we have screenshot some comments on HOL’s efforts thus far. Thanks for reading, donating, editing, designing, writing for HOL.
Our Aspirations
We are challenging ourselves to hit 5,000 active readers a month to keep the Dhamma wheel spinning online by end 2023. We hope you can journey with us by sharing our content and keeping us abreast on topics we should cover!
We need your help!
Topics (we are super flexible if you have a tangential topic!) we are looking at for the upcoming months:
Love & Buddhism (Valentine’s related theme)
Females in Buddhism (Women’s day)
Magha Puja Day
Submit your article here (we can shape it together) or drop us an email!
Metta,
Heng Xuan