Finally my First Blog..
A hello to all my friends reading this blog. Thanks for visiting this page and taking time to atleast think about reading a (stupid) first blog of someone who wanted to write a blog since long but postponed the event for over a year!! I am just gonna write arbit things that come to my mind. I am warning you right at the start that this might be terrible!! Please read further at your own risk!!
Talking about blogs, I first heard about them in some newspaper when I was in the final year of my graduation, some two years ago. From the article, I made out that writing a blog is like writing a personal diary on the net for others to read (strangers included). Gosh!! This idea seemed to be quiet weird. I used to write a personal diary occassionally for quiet some time then, but I would be dead if anyone read the things I wrote in there :D. A personal diary is quiet personal. I wrote things which I could keep only to myself or could share only with my bosom pals. Why on earth would someone like to share such things on the internet, I wondered. That too with strangers!! This world is going damn crazy, I thought.
Back then, internet was not an integral part of my life. I surfed occasionally, maybe once or twice a week, which included checking forwarded mails and forwarding them further. Searching information for some project was rare for me back then. I never even dreamt that I would ever blog on the internet.
After completing my graduation, I moved for post-graduation to a much bigger institute in another city. Internet then became my oxygen- checking mails (other than forwards), keeping in touch with friends and of course- studying. I began spending hours on the internet as it was the only link to the outside world for quiet some time. My courses in the first semester ensured that I would not get more than a handful chances to get out of the campus, going home was a distant dream. Oops.. I guess I am drifting away from the topic of the blog- how I finally reached this day- writing my first blog.
During my time here, I came across homepages of many seniors who had this blog link posted. Out of curiosity, I started reading them. This idea then sounded wonderful. Few of them were very well written- thoughts, stories, articles, poetry.. they had everything in them. Though it was made up of stuff that one would otherwise write in a diary, it was'nt like the personal diary that I had imagined.
As soon as I read the first few blogs, I decided that I should, someday atleast make an attempt to write something. My schedule back then did not allow me even to breathe freely, so starting right away was not feasible. But I did add this in my to-do list.
Time passed by, exams came and went, seasons changed. But the day did not arrive. You must have got an idea of how lazy I am. Well, I am not actually lazy for doing any work. But thinking and penning down thoughts was something that needed enormous efforts on my part. As my schedule beacme less busy, I started spending more time on orkut, messenger and other stuff. Reading blogs formed a quiet smaller portion of my online time, but whenever I read something nice, the unsatisfied wish of writing a blog would creep up into my mind.
I thought that writing a blog would be fairly difficult- starting from deciding a topic, a name for it, actually writing something, blah blah blah.. This would need a lot of patience and time. I would rather watch a movie than spending so much time here. I knew I would never get all the time on earth that I felt was ideal for writing a blog.
Finally, this day arrived when I had a viva of a course project. I spent some time preparing for it since morning. The viva was scheduled in the afternoon. It went fine. I returned to my hostel. Ate. Slept. Ate. It was night by now. Decided to enjoy the night since a viva was over. Watched a marathi play followed by a movie. Checked mail. It was 3 am by now. Was thinking of another movie. Don't get surprised, this lifestyle is common at my place- watching movies all night- two or three at a time.
Again, traversing through some links, I landed here- blogspot. Without thinking much, just filled in the new account form and started to write. I remember once of even filling this form long back. But I got stuck up in the blog name, can't recall why exactly I left.
Today, finding a name for the blog was easy- finally my first blog!! What a name!! After over a year of reading blogs, I finally have one of my own!! Hence that 'finally'...
If at all you have reached here, reading these words of mind, I thank you a lot for taking your precious time out for reading my crap!! It would be a big favour if you add some comments. I am just curious about knowing if atleast one person reads this blog.. Finally my first blog!! :)
Talking about blogs, I first heard about them in some newspaper when I was in the final year of my graduation, some two years ago. From the article, I made out that writing a blog is like writing a personal diary on the net for others to read (strangers included). Gosh!! This idea seemed to be quiet weird. I used to write a personal diary occassionally for quiet some time then, but I would be dead if anyone read the things I wrote in there :D. A personal diary is quiet personal. I wrote things which I could keep only to myself or could share only with my bosom pals. Why on earth would someone like to share such things on the internet, I wondered. That too with strangers!! This world is going damn crazy, I thought.
Back then, internet was not an integral part of my life. I surfed occasionally, maybe once or twice a week, which included checking forwarded mails and forwarding them further. Searching information for some project was rare for me back then. I never even dreamt that I would ever blog on the internet.
After completing my graduation, I moved for post-graduation to a much bigger institute in another city. Internet then became my oxygen- checking mails (other than forwards), keeping in touch with friends and of course- studying. I began spending hours on the internet as it was the only link to the outside world for quiet some time. My courses in the first semester ensured that I would not get more than a handful chances to get out of the campus, going home was a distant dream. Oops.. I guess I am drifting away from the topic of the blog- how I finally reached this day- writing my first blog.
During my time here, I came across homepages of many seniors who had this blog link posted. Out of curiosity, I started reading them. This idea then sounded wonderful. Few of them were very well written- thoughts, stories, articles, poetry.. they had everything in them. Though it was made up of stuff that one would otherwise write in a diary, it was'nt like the personal diary that I had imagined.
As soon as I read the first few blogs, I decided that I should, someday atleast make an attempt to write something. My schedule back then did not allow me even to breathe freely, so starting right away was not feasible. But I did add this in my to-do list.
Time passed by, exams came and went, seasons changed. But the day did not arrive. You must have got an idea of how lazy I am. Well, I am not actually lazy for doing any work. But thinking and penning down thoughts was something that needed enormous efforts on my part. As my schedule beacme less busy, I started spending more time on orkut, messenger and other stuff. Reading blogs formed a quiet smaller portion of my online time, but whenever I read something nice, the unsatisfied wish of writing a blog would creep up into my mind.
I thought that writing a blog would be fairly difficult- starting from deciding a topic, a name for it, actually writing something, blah blah blah.. This would need a lot of patience and time. I would rather watch a movie than spending so much time here. I knew I would never get all the time on earth that I felt was ideal for writing a blog.
Finally, this day arrived when I had a viva of a course project. I spent some time preparing for it since morning. The viva was scheduled in the afternoon. It went fine. I returned to my hostel. Ate. Slept. Ate. It was night by now. Decided to enjoy the night since a viva was over. Watched a marathi play followed by a movie. Checked mail. It was 3 am by now. Was thinking of another movie. Don't get surprised, this lifestyle is common at my place- watching movies all night- two or three at a time.
Again, traversing through some links, I landed here- blogspot. Without thinking much, just filled in the new account form and started to write. I remember once of even filling this form long back. But I got stuck up in the blog name, can't recall why exactly I left.
Today, finding a name for the blog was easy- finally my first blog!! What a name!! After over a year of reading blogs, I finally have one of my own!! Hence that 'finally'...
If at all you have reached here, reading these words of mind, I thank you a lot for taking your precious time out for reading my crap!! It would be a big favour if you add some comments. I am just curious about knowing if atleast one person reads this blog.. Finally my first blog!! :)
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