Blog Spot

I was browsing through my blogs yesterday. Reminded me of the beginning; 3 and a half years rewind. Feels like just a few days have passed between now and then. I’d never thought I would complete 10 posts and now here comes number 75.

Blogging means a lot to me now. It is a big part of my life. No matter how busy you get in life, you would always find the time for the things you really like. Blogging is one such thing for me. I know I am not one of those artistic writers who would come up with masterpieces from time to time; neither do I have good story-telling skills. I have come across much better writers and I really like reading their blogs. Their blogs are a pleasure to read.

I like this place! Facebook will take over Orkut, tomorrow Google plus might throw away Facebook, people may lose their interest in twitter, but for me Blogspot will always be there. At times I had thought about shifting to Wordpress. It is much better than blogspot, much simpler to handle, more powerful tools. But given a second thought, do these things really matter? The content is the only things that really matter and counts for me and that wouldn’t change with the change in platform. I could do a hundred things on my blog, visitor counter, maps, an application for chat, but I prefer it to be simple, just plain writing.

I am not here to monetize or make new friends out there, write popular stuff and publish through the internet, connect through Facebook and all. I am glad that few people out there read my blog. I am happy when I see a friend or a stranger commenting or hearing from people that they read my blog and liked it or otherwise. Yet, that’s not the only thing that keeps me going.

I have nothing against Facebook and Twitter, but most of the things that I like to say cannot be really said in one or two lines. It simply does not work that way for me. For a person like me who likes to analyze things and go into the depth of it, blogging is the perfect outlet. It’s not a place where you would get 15 likes and 25 comments for cracking a joke.

The real question is do you really want it to be popular? I believe I can write more freely knowing that not many people are reading. I’m glad this does not reach out to the people whose only contribution in my life is a Happy Birthday on my wall once a year. I write for myself more than anyone else and I know I’m going to last long. Never had a writer’s block till now and I believe I would never have it ever.

To all the people who have read my blog : ‘A big thank you! Any feedback is welcome.’ I’ll continue reading other blogs too and commenting on the ones that I like.