Okay, so it has been quite a while since I last tried wrote a blog that made it to the public eye. The last time I did that, I was maybe fourteen- the efforts I put into my "poem blog" were Herculean, but just looking at it makes me cringe now. So I let THAT particular adolescent misjudgement be, and decided to start afresh. That was a year ago.
Now, procrastination is one of the most recurring themes on my long list of shortcomings. I kept finding excuses to not write, and instead just READ. I have lost count of the number of books, articles, blogs and random crap I have read in the past six months, while I kept getting ideas about things to write and losing them by the time i woke up the next day.
So today, over a cuppa and a friend's urgings to write "whatever" in my blog, I decided that a lame "hey-I-am-getting-started" blog is WAY better than doing absolutely nothing, which has been my topmost priority for quite a while now. The thing about settling into patterns is, you get comfortable with familiarity, whether you like it or not. And once you have settled into that half-hearted existence, you forget what you started out as. Though I decided somewhere along the way to study Biology, I was always the kid that wrote bad poetry and got excited over books and the Arab Spring. And I wouldn't want to lose that for anything in the world. So even if this blog only ever gets 2 viewers (who I'll probably ask over to see how the "new thing" looks), I will still upload stuff about whatever happens to be the focus of my overenthusiasm at that point. And to hell with cynicism and sobriety.
Cheers.
P.S: I may or may not have been on a coffee high while typing this.
P.S 2: Thank you, Zehra and Rishi. I owe you guys.
