When I started blogging, some time in early 2006, I used the medium to have my essays critiqued by fellow MBA aspirants. Topics like, 'Should sex education be made compulsory?', 'Corruption, a way of life' formed my initial posts. I extended these to giving advice to MBA aspirants after I got entrance to MBA. And then, lull. No activity for almost couple of years.
Then in the last semester, somewhere in the latter part of 2007, I was reintroduced to blogging by Patwardhan Sir. Since then I have been active on my blog. Now, being active on blogs has its own problems.
Then, I started reading a few blogs and found my blogs absolutely inadequate. Inadequate in content, inadequate in style of writing, in adequate in every aspect.
Then came the resolve to give something better for people visited the blog.
Then came the Chicken-Egg Paradox. (Don't know if the analogy is right. But hey, this my space!)
Do I experience to write on the blog or I write because I experience and found it worth sharing? I grappled with this for a long time and I think I have the answer now. It does not matter!
If you experience and write about it, its great. The writings would have great depth and clarity. They would instantly strike the right chords with the reader. The words would flow and little effort would be spent in writing.
If you experience so that you may write about it, you at least make an attempt to experience which other wise would not have been the case. This repeated over a number of times would change your perspective and probably make you a different person. With a changed perspective you will start experiencing things and then write them. So, you become the first category.
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