So it has begun! - But Why? And What can you expect?

(Patience; The first one is always a toughie.)

Life is full of numerous decisions that are quite hard to make. Such as my latest one to start a blog. Why? Firstly, the general notion that blogs are for weak people who fear that they are not being given enough attention in their other social interactions. True that many people are using blogs to give themselves a sense of importance (and what is wrong with that?) but that is however not the purpose of my blog. Many do it to share their innermost feelings because you know what they say in all these advisory sitcoms - Sharing is good. Aah – not quite what pushed me though. The real reason is a bit weird.

Now after watching numerous first-world (read jobless people) programmes where they break down and analyse everybody's life and generalise everything, I am of the belief that I suffer from some form of OCD (I am pretty obsessive and compulsive about a lotta things - and to a degree that it can be considered a disorder). One of the key aspects of my psychology is a paranoia of misinformation. As one senior put it aptly during my orientation, "Oh! You are one of these people who wants to say everything that is to be said about something because you are afraid that people get the wrong impression."

Plus I have the organizing/chronicling/recording compulsion. Remember Monica from Friends? Something like that. And I don’t enjoy it like her – it is more like a burden that I have to live with. It consumes a hell lot of time, and I cant easily start anything new as I am afraid that I might not do it in the most optimum way.

I have done this chronicling before, on different occasions on different media. Historically, all these chronicling attempts start during a big period of inactivity (such as this summer in hot hot India). And those that need a long term effort are discontinued soon. As always, I start with the hope that on this occasion that won’t happen.

The most important aspect of my venture is a sudden rekindling of my passion for writing. It is one of many hundreds of things that I hoped I was good at, and one of the very few of those things that I know I can master by practice. I might become a professional op-ed writer and then these might be samples of my amateurish attempts enroute to greatness! One can hope.

If I do continue this blog, you can expect to see my perspective (I am quite sure that you don’t care) on many things, based on my experiences and education. This will definitely not be a news report type account of what is happening – there shall be no order, no theme. Disclaimer – this won’t be an accurate journal by any standard as it is not real-time, depends on mood, computer availability, other pre-occupations, blah blah blah. (Remember paranoia of misinformation?) Damn! I already regret starting this.