Monday 17 January 2011

Blogging, And My Lack Of It.

Very recently, a friend asked me why I don't blog as often as I used to. I told her that lately, I've been turning out such inexcusable tripe while writing that it's simply embarrassing to post it online. She pooh-poohed the idea and ordered me to blog more. 

Later on, I got to thinking why I've become so irregular with my blogging. Maybe it's just that I don't have things to write - not things that I'd care to share on a public forum, anyway. True, my blog is much less public now after I've made it invitation-only, to keep it away from certain people's prying eyes. But somehow I feel like my blogging isn't worth a second look - I don't have Shreya's gift of comparing life to her beautiful photographs, I don't have Mandy's talent for putting into a few words entire feelings or incidents, and I don't have Reeti's quality of writing simple but sweet updates. These are blogs I could read again and again - but mine? Mine (although it has its moments) is simply a sorry excuse for a blog address.

I think my talent for words, for stringing together sentences and drawing pictures with them, shines through only in my work. I love each feature article that I write, I treasure each paragraph, each quote, and each interview - because it's a part of me and no one can take it away. Work may be my defence mechanism for quite a lot of things, but it's the only thing that keeps me sane - and life, although hectic and fast-paced and busy, is simply amazing. I wouldn't want things any other way.

6 comments:

Vagabond said...

And, I'll keep saying - write more often. Please.

Love.

storyteller said...

Bhak!

I enjoy the way you write, it's crisp, a little detached and always makes for an interesting read. So yes you must keep writing :)

Magically Bored said...

@ Vagabond: Heh. Will try.

@ Storyteller: Aww. Ki baaje kotha, but thanks. <3

Monidipa said...

Just saw this! (My Dashboard notifications have gone mad.) With absolutely no disguised bid to fish for (further) compliments, as far as I am concerned I don't think the comparison is true. My blogs are delusional, pretentious and melodramatic, all to such an extent that after a few months they make me sick at heart and feel compelled to delete them. I find it quite amazing that you (or other people who do) manage to keep the same blog over years, and I always attribute that to some kind of bedrock sanity or genuineness in their writing that continues to elude mine. That genuineness is more important than surface sparkle.

Magically Bored said...

@ Monidipa: You know, you've posted this exact same comment on another blogpost of mine! :P

Monidipa said...

Ah yes. Writing one post's comment at another post, that's me. Forgetting to delete the wrong one is me too. All rectified now. :P