About a long non-writing spell!

I am almost appalled at how little I have been writing of late. Not so long back this blog was an extension of my thoughts and experiences. Pretty much anything that occurred to me as worth expressing, but of not the kind that you would call up someone and talk about, found a post for itself.

Does it indicate getting too caught up in what is typically known as “mundane existence” and not dwelling deeply enough on things that pass by? I suspect part of the blame goes to the always there and ever enticing “What’s on your mind” box that has made sharing so instant, so “one piece at a time” and not requiring post processing of any kind! With reaching out to a reasonably large audience having gotten so easy, where from does one get the drive to compose a post in its complete form, connect the seemingly unconnected dots, look beyond what is immediately apparent and post something that may or may not be read by anyone?

Micro-blogging of the Facebook/Twitter variety is doing something to our communication patterns that have long term implications. Consciously or otherwise I have started making an effort to communicate in a sentence or two, to limit my words, and – this is probably the most important – talk about only one thing at a time!

It’s only in the past few days that I realized that it has resulted in an unusually long dry spell for my blog. I am so used to my Facebook posts being responded to in real time that the idea of writing purely for the sake of it is daunting now!

Well, inspirations come when you least expect them and this time it happened when I chanced upon someone’s blog full of lyrical musings and thoughts about nothing in particular; during one of my random internet surfing spells. The kind of self-indulgent diary like writing that blogs were originally meant to be for. So if self-indulgent writing is what it takes to keep up with our notorious old habit of pondering over things for no reason, of spending time thinking of matters that bear no consequence and conjuring up hypotheses of all kinds, then so be it!

But of course, the beauty of it is that what we write just for ourselves often resonates with someone or the other every once in a while. If that happens, I would like to hear from you! That’s all for now, this was kind of a warm up post to tell myself that I need to get back to writing in its proper form.

Advertisement