Broodings on Blogging

First and foremost, if you have come to this blog, you've done it voluntarily and without any coercion whatsoever. Having established that, I think some of the readers (if any) are gonna be mightily pissed about whats written in the text that follows. I am writing this entry while moving from Pune to Mumbai in the awsome April heat (although I am sitting in the cosy confines of a Volvo)

I have always wondered how it works that some people blog so actively while others like me just cant get used to this format of giving others a dose of your screwed-up mind..Partly I feel nobody would care to get your 2 cents on anything...coz you see everyone is someone else's whacko!!

However going by the craze and extent of reach of social networking (Orkut, FB, Foursquare), micro-blogging (Twitter, Buzz, etc.) and other similar platforms that provide you a means of developing a virtual identity of yourself, it seems there is actually a lot of guys there who want a piece of you...

I was averse to reading random blogs on the internet and limited myself only to reading the ones 'forced' on to me by my family and friends. Well, the reason lies in simple statistics. Of the 10 blogs you would read, atleast half of them are gonna be bigoted, too opinionated, too verbose or worse still all of these. In such a scenario, I dint wanna let my mind be weighed upon by someone else's crap (esp. when I ve my own to take care of) or worse still ascribe to some screwed-up notions of somebody just coz they knew how to sway the emotions their ways. The worst sortsa punishment i can think over internet is reading a long 4-5 page blog of a dumbass and finding you just cant get back those 15-20 minutes of your life...

I felt that Blogging on the internet, as I would see it is kinda akin to a small baby crying for mother's attention. Only, out here you can do that for a much larger audience and dun have the fear of getting beaten up too even if you 'misbehave' too bad..

However, I ve come across a couple of kickass frens of mine who are deep into this stuff. Once a while, I ve come across really good blogs (courtesy these kickass guys) and I ve actually liked what I read.. There were a lot of emotions all right, the blogs inadvertantly were a bit verbose but they still evoke a lot of admiration at times- maybe coz the writing style is awsome, the manner of dealing with an issue is great or better still the author subscribes exactly to the same point of views as you (pretty self-centered huh??- well isnt blogging all about just that??)

Anyway- coming to the crux of this post, I am gonna try to do more of blogging in the coming times- maybe I will ve it as a new year resolution for 2011 or something. Well the idea is not so much to crap others with all the shit that goes on in my mind but more to ve a kinda outlet to my mental framework at a point in time, which I would mostly look at sometime in the future and exclaim- "well- how naive was I then??" Whether, others read it or not is totally gonna be incidental and I would fully understand if they feel I am their whacko (remr a line above??)

and I ve this habit of closing a post of mine with some lines that i ve liked at some point in time...So here it goes-

Breathe, breathe in the air.

Don't be afraid to care.

Leave, don't leave me.

Look around and choose your own ground.

Long you live and high you fly

smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry

all you touch and all you see

Is all your life will ever be.

Signing off,

Sameer

Dt- 18-APR-2010