13th August 2006
In the wee hours of one rainy night, sitting in the hostel room, exactly 20 years ago, this blog came into existence with the following
Why am I doing this?
Why did I start this blog?
Will anyone ever read this?
Do I really care if anyone reads this at all?
Why do I want to share my thoughts with the world?
The answer to all the above questions...
...simply, I dont know. I am not sure of the answers but it...
maybe I am doing this because its the latest fad.
or maybe I want an outlet for my feelings
or maybe I want another connection with the outside world
Or maybe at 1 A.M on a Saturday (actually Sunday) night I couldnt find anything better to do...so started a blog
Well, with these confused thoughts, I have made a beginning. I do not know where this journey is going to take me. I do not know what the destination is, I dont even know the route. But as its said "A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step".....This is my first step.
That first tentative step has been followed by a few more (more than 500 in fact). A journey which has lasted 20 years now. Just how old is this blog - to give a perspective, in 2006, Orkut (now defunct) was the social media rage, Facebook was still not available outside campuses, Twitter (now X) did not exist, Chatting medium were Yahoo Messenger & GTalk, not WhatsApp, internet was still more text dominated, unlike its more visual avatar now, and still dominated by computer rather than mobile! It pre-dates amongst other things - iPhone, Instagram, streaming services! In short, in tech terms - quite old! And despite all the changes, this blog trundled on!
To be honest, I still do not have the answers to the questions raised in the very first post. The posts themselves have evolved over time - random, cricket, few personal incidents, movies, to now - books (just me showing off), India's roads to the Olympics (in itself a long journey and not just once-in-four-years-event), year-end lists (TYIL & others) and the annual Independence Day post. Reading back, some of the posts are quite weird & cringe-worthy, but I guess that part of growing up as well!
And across this journey of 500+ posts over 20 years, there is also a realization that the blog was never for an audience but just for myself! Here is to the unscripted route and wherever it goes next!!!
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