Everything for the first time is quite special; first school, first college, first fight, first girlfriend, first love, first marriage and of course first birth & death (ohhh, sorry. that's always first & final!!!). But I am not writing about any of those, for me today it’s about my first blog. Is it special for me... I don't know yet, but it did take me a long time to write one of these. Someone told me long time ago,"Rahul, you should blog". And I asked the usual 'why', that i ask to any advice that is given to me; "Why?". I was told that I am very creative and this is a great form of expressing our creativity. Is it?? (see, I am questioning again. some habits never change!!).
Today morning I was talking to my friend about blogging so I decided to write my blog today. I thought something similar when I had almost no work 2 yrs back (I was on 'Beach' or 'Bench', that’s what IT industry calls it when you don't have work but you are still luckily employed. Just FYI, I am again on beach from 1 week) and I registered to blogspot but never wrote anything. Blogging is for people who have time to waste, not me (like I am such a busy person, who may have nothing to do. doing nothing keeps you really busy!!). I utilized (or wasted) most of that time going through wikipedia and creating wiki posts there. By the way, I love wikipedia a lot!!
Then last year when I was going to US, I decided that this is my time to blog. I was going abroad(you know, I was riding an airplane for the first time in my life and that too directly to US. does not feels anything special though, it’s a tiring 22 hrs flight including halt) for the first time in my life, so if I can't write a diary then I should at least write a blog. (at least?? like I am some Shakespeare or Javed Akhtar or Gulzar that writing is the least I do, huh!!) But again, who has the time to write a blog, it’s good to roam around in a new country or even better to just sit idle but to write a blog. MAN!! I am lazy or what!!! I don’t know how I managed to write a personal diary for 3-4 years (but then I was in school and at that time and its fun to be someone who writes a diary. You tell all your friends that you write a diary and show it to them like a big-big secret. They all are dying to read it and then you show it to some of your real-personal good friends and they are the lucky chosen ones with whom you share your personal diary. Are we all so stupid when we are kids!!). Or how was I the college magazine editor and I used to write almost all the articles my self and then put it on other people's name (After all you can't just have your name spread all around the magazine. Again the childhood game of who's the luck one whose name would be put under the article, like you get a noble prize if your name's in college magazine).
So I never blogged, never till now. But here I am scribing and scraping whatever is coming in my mind. I guess that's blogging. Definitely easier than writing a diary (computers are always better to write than pens after all, "cut-copy-paste-delete & dictionary" I love it!!) or even writing those big articles (some times stealing from other magazines, yeah I did that too). Only difference is you are writing an online diary which you know & want people to read, it’s my stupid & easy definition.
So this was or is my first time blogging. I know what all may come to mind when you say "First Time" (dirty minds, hehehe!!) but this was it. I hope to write more & even more but till then keep blogging & keep reading my blog(s). This is RAHUL saying Good Bye & Good Luck!!!
