The Big Question

Now that i got a blog like every kandasamy, munusamy and govindasamy (tom, dick and harry for the uninitiated) there seems to to be this the big question hanging right in front and going tic-toc, what to blog ??

Tried looking at a few blogs of my friends and acquaintances to see what folks generally do with their blogs, but the content of their blogs are as widely spread as a glutton's lunch table. You've got different people writing different things in different styles.

There is one style which writes whatever happens in their lives. My diary with day-to-day affairs would make an interesting and pulsating read if my name was one Allan Quartermain or a certain Max Rockatansky. Since i happen to be neither, all that i would be able to write is my encounters with traffic signals, dumb drivers and callous pedestrians. Thinking about all these again would make me feel bugged. Writing about it would just throw me in a sea of depression and Reading about it can cause you mild schizoprenia. We dont want that, do we ?? Lets move on to another style.

There is this style where the __only__ thing that people write in their blogs is "I found this interesting" and a whole bunch of links to something that talks about
a) flying turtles, talking snakes or anacondas with a sense of humor (or some such supernatural phenomena)
b) how one krishnaraj found a diamond while cleaning his cowshed, with which India could buy America seven times over (you would have to forward this to 7 Indians if you are a patriot).
c) how an IIT student wrote an OS powerful than microsoft and how an IQ calibrating machine went b-o-o-m coz it just couldnt match up with his IQ (14 indians this time).
Not that I am very original, but why do i need a blog if all that i wanted was to have a newsfeed in my site ?? Might as well redirect all misguided souls to rediff or TOI.

There is a third style. To write about social evils, To talk about how much our society has degraded, and how so much muck is present in our day-to-day lives. Angry Young Men and Women pour their heart out looking at the way things are. Ho-hum, all this sounds too dystopian for my liking and secondly, although i might remain angry most of the time, i reckon am not young anymore. Orwell rules, I agree. The future is dark, Agree again. And yes, No one around me is holy, but i dont think i can complain so badly, coz at times, i get this strange feeling that i myself am a social evil, and so if i choose to write stuff that way, dark and dystopian, i would end up being the biggest narcissistic blogger of all times.

There is this one style where people write all that they like. It initially starts with what they like in movies, books, food and music which is all fine. That seems to be a nice and easy premise, but then to continue to do it, one has to be well read or try to sound well read or atleast pretend to be well read. I am not well-read, i basically stick to fiction and let all non-fiction works rest in peace in the book shelves. I do not sound well-read, for that matter, when i tried to find out how actually i sound, the results werent encouraging the least. Pretension seems to be an option, but since am overworking on pretending to be a software engineer, that is ruled out too.

Whew. That discounts all possible styles that i could think of. Oh well, I guess this blog didnt actually turn out the way i thought it would, did it ?? Rule number 1 for all bloggers: stick to writing whatever comes to your mind, you can think about your excuses later.