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How many times have you tried to explain the 'importance of being earnest' in the blog-eat-blog world to your non-blogging friends?And how many times have their eyes clouded over and you can totally feel their nonchalance hitting you in the face in slow-mo?Happens to you? Welcome to my world!
I can't explain why I take so many pictures.I can't explain why I need to space out on a metro ride back home,nor do I wish to speak about my crumply black diary that I keep scribbling in.I'm not unraveling any big mystery anytime soon,nor am I your next mad poet.I am a blogger,and I need to keep track of my ideas.In a different world,in a different era,on a different blog I spoke about how words and inspiration seem to dissipate as soon as I hit the laptop.Ideas prop up in the oddest of places.Great thoughts are churned and sometimes forgotten.It's a hard life keeping track of all the thought baubles and bubbles.
If things were hard before,it has become rather worse now.My blog design biz is rather new and admittedly I have been shoving/showing it off like a shiny new man I've been having great sex with.To be honest,I'm more than a little proud and happy to see my dream take off.To me and very few others this has a lot of significance but then there are many,many faces who see it nothing more than an idle,obsessive hobby.I wouldn't care if they hadn't meant anything to me.Really.
Blogging is like crack,and given a choice we would spend half our lives online subscribing to a hundred new blogs everyday.I've weighed that,twirled it around my head and sought to create a balance between my online and offline life.I'm sure you have too!However,recently I have pissed off more than a few good friends.
Other than that writing for pleasure has significantly reduced.But I know there's a time and space for everything and I'm hoping to get back to it soon. To keep my dream afloat however,one most engage in a lot of sincere PR,but I really do love my job and have never really thought myself even capable of working in a structured manner!In a way that gives me immense satisfaction and that should be enough,and it really is to a certain extent.I shouldn't really be ranting had I not taken their implicit dissatisfaction to heart.To answer my own question,their understanding of my work and it's itinerary is a lot like my interest in cricket - ZERO.I've never tried to understand the game,hence never ended up liking it even though it's a religion in India.
And so I ask every blogger,cyber entrepreneur or a non-blogger who chanced upon my post by googling a creepy search word -Why do you love? Why do you hate? Most importantly,how do you cope?
