Sunday, June 20, 2004

why?

i am currently studying(...???really?) in the Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur...one of the most exalted colleges for technical education in our huge,poor nation...it is the oldest of the iit's..well enough for gk let's get down to the business of writing something for this damned blog which no self respecting man in his right mind would ever like to read...but therein arises the question that why am i doing this?wasting my time trying to write something which probably no one apart from me will ever read?...the answer lies inside each of us..all of us human beings have a natural urge to express their innermost thoughts in some way or the other...some of us draw,paint or sketch...some try out acting...some can't do it because they don't have any innermost thoughts(innermost???do we have layers or something,dude?)...others like me write...for as long as i can remember i have been reading stuff...from comics to magazines to novels to encyclopaedias to a whole lotta crazy shit including jam jar labels....and i always wished to be able to write something which others could read and appreciate...well i have succeeded partially as i have written a couple of poems which have been appreciated by a lot of people and i also participate in creative writing competitions in which i have managed to get a few prizes...but it was always something which was written more for others..now i have realised the importance of writing for oneself and that is the reason i am doing this...and as it is these are the summer vacations and i have nothing much better to do being away from my girlfriend and most of my friends...so now that i have explained the raison d'etre for this blog go ahead and read it if you want to...but if you don't...i give a damn!!!