It has been years since blogging gained popularity, and for some reason or the other; I have not yet tried my hand at it.
Thinking back, I was really passionate about writing during my good old school days. I remember spending free time writing random essays, articles for the school magazine and maintaining detailed dairies of travel experiences. Later however, when I moved to hostel, my writing became limited to a few letters to friends and family back home; and finally by the time I was into engineering, I had forgotten all about it! There could be many reasons for this; perhaps it was the change in priorities, perhaps it was the moving out from a protected environment at home, perhaps it was the influence of my companions, perhaps I was just lazy or perhaps I was busy with other activities. (like studying! ;-) )
This loss of touch, is majorly what has kept me away from blogging. Moreover, during the short span when I was working, before commencing my masters course, I had developed this wrong notion that blogs were written by people who had plenty of free time at hand. This is because, I came across a number of colleagues writing blogs during office hours. They were the unfortunate ones who were officially ‘on bench’ (in the I.T. industry, bench is a concept that applies to companies that recruit extra employees to increase the head count or as back up staff) and were looking for ways to kill time. However, more recently I have had the chance to read some good blogs and have come to the conclusion that blogs are written by people who are passionate about writing. I think, this realisation, in itself is a reason enough to start blogging. Better late than never!
Thanks to all the my friends who write blogs, my desire to write seems to have resurfaced and I have found a new place to pen down my thoughts. What remains to be seen now, is how long my enthusiasm at this is going to last!
Thinking back, I was really passionate about writing during my good old school days. I remember spending free time writing random essays, articles for the school magazine and maintaining detailed dairies of travel experiences. Later however, when I moved to hostel, my writing became limited to a few letters to friends and family back home; and finally by the time I was into engineering, I had forgotten all about it! There could be many reasons for this; perhaps it was the change in priorities, perhaps it was the moving out from a protected environment at home, perhaps it was the influence of my companions, perhaps I was just lazy or perhaps I was busy with other activities. (like studying! ;-) )
This loss of touch, is majorly what has kept me away from blogging. Moreover, during the short span when I was working, before commencing my masters course, I had developed this wrong notion that blogs were written by people who had plenty of free time at hand. This is because, I came across a number of colleagues writing blogs during office hours. They were the unfortunate ones who were officially ‘on bench’ (in the I.T. industry, bench is a concept that applies to companies that recruit extra employees to increase the head count or as back up staff) and were looking for ways to kill time. However, more recently I have had the chance to read some good blogs and have come to the conclusion that blogs are written by people who are passionate about writing. I think, this realisation, in itself is a reason enough to start blogging. Better late than never!
Thanks to all the my friends who write blogs, my desire to write seems to have resurfaced and I have found a new place to pen down my thoughts. What remains to be seen now, is how long my enthusiasm at this is going to last!
