Ummm! Probably not! That said, I surely hope that this is not a onetime burst of enthusiasm. I actually want to sustain blogging. You may be asking why this question suddenly came to my mind? Well, today I was having a discussion with a dear friend whom I would call NA for recognition purposes. NA was quite pleased with my blogging efforts though mind it he wasn’t pleased with the blog. It was the effort that he was commending. :)
Mr. NA happens to be a once-upon-a-time blogger with just one post to his credit. He is a one-post blogger and he wanted to warn me against being something like him. Well NA, you see, I am no longer a one-post blogger but at least a 2-post blogger :D
It was while I was discussing things with him that I realized that all things that I am passionate about have started because someone inspired me into them. The fuel might have been there but somebody acted as the ignition. I remember holding my friend’s DSLR for the first time. I watched him in awe as he used that awesome piece of engineering and convert very mundane shots into seemingly pieces of art. I remember saying to him- “I got to have one of these!” Rest is history. Same thing happened with blogging. My first post credits Ms. Virgin Margarita with the inspiration part.
My blogs may probably sound autobiographical right now but then I write random stuff. This is one of them. I was going through numerous other blogs today and man! People do write lots of sensible stuff! I am not capable of writing that kind of stuff, not right now. So till the time I get in the right frame, let my blogs sound autobiographical.
One of the random thoughts that came to me today was related to the revolution that blogging has been. Why do people love blogging? Why do people Tweet? Why FB? Ummm…let’s drop FB. It is on a completely different plane from blogging. I guess blogging gives you the freedom to express your deepest feelings without the fear of being identified? Also, traditionally, we have been used to listening to peoples’ views on the TV and absorbing the facts. We never actually got to discuss things apart from the coffee table groups. Now, with blogging, people from diverse backgrounds can actually come together and discuss ideas and share viewpoints. Blogging has become so important that now it has gone mainstream. Virgin Margarita may remember that I posted a quote from the blogs of a Harvard researcher. This is not his personal blog but his official one. So you see, how mainstream blogging has gone. You may follow him at:
This link was shared by one of my Profs. and has some good insights into the reasons behind the phenomenal popularity of social media sites. That said, I will pause my discussion on blogging. Let’s keep things light, at least for my first few posts. :)
Ohh btw! I mentioned that exams are weird times. Well, I derived a relationship between your productivity or lack of it and the days left to your exam.
Time spent at activities other than studies= e1/x
Where x=number of days remaining to the exams. You see, as x tends to zero, you spend an almost infinite amount of time doing random stuff, like blogging J Interesting formula! At least it is true in my case.
Just adding a video on attempts on suicide by our poor Larry. I liked it. Hope you guys enjoy it too.
Adios!
I always knew this decreasing exponential series could be used for depicting the studying pattern around the exams...now you have made my belief more firm :-).
ReplyDeleteGenerally, the best inspiration to write a blog post is when you should definitely NOT be writing one...like when you have an exam in a few hours. :P
ReplyDeleteBut that's when the best "life sucks" posts are written. (I speak from experience :P)
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