Writing and me

And theres my first step(read line) in the blog world !

It has taken me quite a lot of time to get down to it. I was skeptical at first about sharing my thoughts in a public space, but once I overcame that inhibition a few years back, it was solely due to laziness.

I want to blog and be regular about it, just because I love writing. Immensely. And it is a habit that I've lost over the last few years and desperately want to get back to.
I used to write poems as a kid. I used to find it very easy to express more with fewer words. I used to pen down short rhyming poems to bid relatives good bye after a visit, or general poems about the rain, the sun and my favourite one, about the common cold!
Some of them have been published in my school magazines.

That phase passed though and later I found myself able to write a poem only when really motivated or moved by something. I still do that though and my most recent one was to my sister on her birthday last year. But clearly, a career as a poet was out of the question :)

In the later half of my teenage I took to keeping a semi-diary, a writing pad actually, on which I started scribbling out all my world's worries and thoughts when I was 15. That has been updated 4 times since at roughly 2 year intervals. But each update would be at least 25 long pages in ength.

Going back and reading those records is always an insightful experience and I invariably catch something that had not struck me before. I am either jostled by the naivety in some of the thoughts, or am astounded at the amount of thought and processing that was going on in my mind at that time. The conclusion has always been the same though . I havent changed .....well, not much...

I wish I had continued writing on that precious writing pad. Because after the last update on it, theres a long gap of 6 years. 6 years where I learnt so many valuable lessons in life, where I experienced so much, traveled so extensively and have made so many decisions. I so wish there was an account of what my thoughts were during all of this!

I guess I got led away from it with the advent of the "Personal Computer". When I finally got a PC to call my own and protected it with a password, there was a feeling of safety that I could write down whatever I wanted and save it in there and it would work as well as my old writing pad.
But sadly, that did not turn out to be true, at least for me.

3 different work computers over 2 different jobs and a total of 5 different "PC"s later, its been a whole bunch of random notepad documents, word documents, saved at random locations. I have no track of most of them now, either because of the system getting corrupted, virus attacks, accidental cleanups, and what not.

So now, determined to put an end to that, here I am with my online blog space!
Not all thoughts or writings of mine are/were private so to speak. Sure they are my views, but they arent views I dont want others to hear, they are usually not about particular people or incidents. When I read other's blogs, there has been many a time where I have come across views similar to mine on various topics, as also comments which provide a completely different point of view.

I guess thats where the charm lies.

Not only do you have the freedom of expressing yourself freely, but you get to get across to scores of people round the globe and get their inputs too on what you have to say!

Well, heres to a lasting relationship with my writing in this new space!