Thursday, January 31, 2008

What's the Use.....

I have come across the above phrase so many times in the recent past that I simply felt compelled to write about it. You will come across it when u try to do something not directly connected with your work life or something that is not going to yield anything important in return in the near future.
So u hear it:"Why solve Sudoku?" "Why learn a new language?" "Why draw a Rangoli?Is there a festival?" and ofcourse "Why write a blog?"
Well....here I am talking about some activity in which some finite efforts are involved and not some passive activity like Watching Movie or a Cricket match. Its not just true for some heavy duty task but even for something as simple as going for a walk. Tell someone that you are going for a walk .....immediate response wud be " Why?What for?".People will immediately assume that u have started walking for reducing weight.......But tell someone you are watching a movie .....Response wud be " Which Movie?" No further questions.
Same is true with reading books.....It has become so fashionable to read Non-Fiction books(Specially self help books) that people seem to think that the one reading Fiction has too much time on hand....
People generally say:"Why are u putting so much efforts into it?What's the use".....
Does everything have to have a motive....One of the times when somebody asked me this Question, I gave it a serious thought and finally came up with answer that satisfied me:
"Just for the fun of it".....Do it because it makes u feel happy....Isn't it a strong enough reason to do it......And who decides whether it is not important or not...You never know what thing that you learn becomes useful for you at what point in time....
I don't know how clearly I have put my thoughts but I just wanted to ask these Questions to myself....So I thought why not ask them aloud...There are still many thoughts related to it that I want to write but I think I will keep it for my next blog.....This one has already become too long.....
So hope to continue blogging " Just for fun".....

Friday, January 4, 2008

So what if i can't write well......

There are somethings that you are good at and you enjoy doing;there are others that you are good at but do not enjoy and lastly there are some that you enjoy but are not good at. For me writing belongs to the last category. By writing , i mean stories , poems,etc....Since school days i had harbored this dream that one day i will write a novel(and that it will turn out to be a bestseller,win a prize,etc,etc,etc)....I still vaguely remember the first story that I had written when i was 6 or 7. Only thing i vividly remember about it is that I had killed one of the characters by making her come under a bicycle(coz i found a Truck or bus to be too violent).Poems i left as soon as i began when i realised writing poems was much more than making them rhyme(To say that I was bad at it would be an Understatement). Even later I used to come up with an idea which I used to think was great. After continuing on that thought for some time(max i have written is 5 pages), I used to see the loop holes in it and find everything extremely childish. In short i was bad at creativity.
Then while reading Ruskin Bond stories I realised that you need not have such a great story line with twists and turns .A simple story with empahasis on detailed description also made for an interesting reading. I remember his story called " The Cherry Tree" which just chronicled the growth of a cherry tree from a seed to the fruit bearing stage. But the beauty of the story lay in
the comparison of the growth of the tree and that of the boy who planted it and his relationship with his Grandpa. So i thought of trying out his style of writing. But i am sure that you have guessed by now that I could not accomplish that too.
I had almost given up on Writing when I saw the emergence of Blogs. Suddenly everybody had there own blogs and were writing on any thing and everything under the Sun . After resisting for a long time to become one of them, i joined the gang.
So what if I can't write well........... I can blog