Am I blogging your view ?

The greatest reason behind writing a secret diary is a desire for it to be read.

This apparent paradox, though impulsively deniable is uncannily true and saw the emergence of so many diaries on the public scene each outnumbering the skeletons falling out of the closets with every emergence of secrets written during different periods of time with that same desire of being let out. Come to think of it. If a secret is to be maintained, why write it in the first place. It’s like that childhood story about a barber who unable to hide a secret goes and shouts it out in a well only to be overheard by a tree and revealed through the musical instruments made out of its wood. The desire to let out things kept bottled up in the deep recesses of the mind and heart is ever too strong to be overcome at all times by everyone.

Add to it an increasing emphasis on introspection of the self and an overbearing desire for incessant soul-searching and you have just the perfect script for a blog to jump on the screen and in a way that adds a new dimension to life as we knew it when diaries were being written. Blogs, unlike diaries, mirror life in a better way by providing different levels of ambiguity to a human being. So, you have blogs visible to close friends, blogs visible to friends from some other domain of your interest who usually are net friends and blogs visible/known only to you. The ones known to us only are the ones which bear the closest resemblance to the diaries of yore except that they are less likely to leak out and ready to be deleted into oblivion on a mere click.

That blogging is a phenomenon today hardly comes as a surprise. The opinions run thick and fast and quicker to say the least. It’s a throwback to the word of mouth publicity of yester years albeit at a lightening pace and has a rivetingly cascaded effect. The other notion of it being an opinion of a normal person just like you and me gives it a simplistic credence that does not reek of the sophisticated authenticity of corporate news with its business like indifference to emotions.

If you think this is all, you are pleasantly wrong. What started off as a simple version of a diary has now assumed interesting tentacles that look menacingly poised to multiply and sweep away everything in their deluge. From online diaries to discussion forums to literary clubs to photo sharing to vlogging, there is still some time before the last word is written on it. The creativity is buzzing at the sight of endless opportunities.

The skeptics are sitting up and taking note of it. We have existing media sources incorporating blogs to keep up with an audience that is getting disinterested by the day. Having said that one just hopes that blogging will lead to all things good and will be able to evolve a method to it to be more authentically accepted to the rest of the world without losing its inherent innocence. We need not worry about shortage of content. I am sure it will take an eternity if you try and next-blog your way to the end of the end of the Internet.

Here’s to meaningful blogs!