Why do I blog?!

Why do I blog?!

This is the question I've been asked by many and by myself ever since I started my blog. And I've been asked this question not just by many, but many times too. I never really had any solid answer to this question. To make my presence felt in this global village of the Internet, I used to say, sometimes. Yet a few other times, I used to say just to have some fun. Fun!!!!! I really never had any idea how? The answers may sound funny. Well, they did for me too. Those answers never really satisfied myself though they did convince my friends that I've gone out of my mind.

Perhaps the only answer that I ever came close to satisfying myself with is that through my blog, I was able to give voice to my opinions and share them (or perhaps publish them), which until then, I used share only with a couple of friends of mine.

But then (and even now), I wasn't really sure that some one out there is listening to my voice i.e., reading my blog. So I wasn't really sure why I was blogging.

Actually, (here is where I can become really boring.....so if U don't care why on earth I started blogging, U may, very well, skip on to the next paragraph) I first came to know about blogging through a news paper. Immediately I took to it and started a couple of blogs whose ids and passwords I forgot just as soon as I created them. And then there was a period of lull. But once again I read continuous reports in newspapers about the hectic activity in blogosphere and the way it transforming lives all around the world. i read about how people formerly unknown became famous, how budding writers got book deals, how a few guys got cult following. And then i also read about the Novel writing month. Being a person naturally disposed to wasting realms and realms of paper just to jot down anything that come to my mind....I thought of this as one big chance. And the result is this blog. Well, as U may have observed the first entry is concerned with my opinions regarding int. politics. But immediately after writing that, I introspected and found that its no good writing such stuff. So then I stared writing about myself. This sounded like a bit of self proclamations of an egoist, but later I found that to be okay. So I settled for it.

But even then I wondered what to write about my self or my life or my world. So I decided to write in it everything I am interested. But this still hasn't given me any solid answer for my earlier question.

Then came December last. This December has changed a lot of my opinions about many things. And one of those opinions is that I'm not as useless or as stupid as I think myself to be. Indeed, I realised that no one is. No one is what they seem to be. Well, at least not what they seem to be to my eyes. And the came the TIME : PERSON OF THE YEAR - 2006 issue. It really along with a few incidents that happened in December, gave me the answer I was looking for. Or at least I'm thinking that is the answer.

The answer is: I blog because I want to be the change I want to see around myself. I want to let my voice raise and let it be heard by many, on issues that really matter. I blog because I want to be the change that's sweeping all over the world and is wrestling the right to speech and power of being heard of from the hands of few.I want to blog because I want to build relations with the whole world. "This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them." , according to TIME. Also I always knew I was gifted with a lot of knowledge (sounds a bit like self praise, ain't it? But believe me it isn't). I blog because I want to share this knowledge and empower myself and my fellow humans with it and with their knowledge. I decided to put to use, this knowledge for collective good of my world which has given me so much. Also I decided to use my knowledge and my blog to help spread word about anything that's good. As the first step in that direction, I've put up a logo of a not-for-profit society caring for urchins. Also I decided to post anything I think is interesting and maybe useful. All those who want to care the uncared, please check out that site by clicking on the link.

Ummmmmm.... a lengthy post isn't it. But reading all that I've written I feel that I haven't given an exact and comprehensive answer to the question "Why do I blog?" Yes, I haven't. But then, its OK. At least now, I know what I wanted or rather what I want to do with my blog. I hope to answer, at least sometime in future, "Why do I blog?!" for once and all. And finally the following picture sums up very effectively how caught this habit of blogging.





I request U to help me in my endeavour by posting any comments U may have on my blog. Bye......