Finally......my own blog

At last, a blog of my own!!!!!!!!

If you had asked me about my prospects of blogging a couple of years back, I would've given you one of those looks which would never make you come back to me again with the same question. In fact, I could never imagine myself writing about anything, be it something that I'm passionate about like Roger Federer completing a Wimbledon-US Open double for three consecutive years or A.R.Rahman coming out with a classic or about things I don't give a damn about, like a mammoth celestial body speeding its way to wipe out all forms of life from the earth (seriously, I recently came across a piece of news that validated this and even went to the extent of declaring the day on which the asteroid's going to hit earth a holiday!!!!)... Not that I've lots of stuff to write about now, but over the years, things have changed, the biggest change of them all being my inexplicable urge to start scribbling something!!!

Now that I've made the first step towards this, where do I start from? I'd like to know how and why these famous writers think what they think, how they come up with such profound characters or plots and why isn't everyone who writes able to come out with such stuff? Beats me!!! But isn't it a nice feeling to do what you love to, rather than loving what you are forced to do? I'd never want to imagine Shakespear being coerced into bringing to life "Hamlet", or Einstein being prodded to emerge with the "Theory of Relativity"!!!! Never.

Having been forced to procure material in a production line for a few months, and write codes to serve someone on the other side of the globe, whom I've never seen (and in all probability will never see) for the next few months, I wonder if I'll ever be contented with what I'm doing. From wanting to be an astronaut in my childhood, a tennis player and a doctor (?!!!) during my early teens, a singer during my college days, and looking at where I'm now, I've no other thing to do than to smile vaguely at where life has brought me today.... And mine is not a singular case. I've seen many who just "get on with it" because that's what everyone else is doing!! You tend to get into the flow called life and then scramble to reach a shore and make your mark, lest it may be too late...

But at the end of the day, what have you earned? Have you done what you wanted to do in life, leave alone what others wanted you to do? Are you satisfied? Have you accomplished all that you dreamt of? All that you yearned for? Isn't there a feeling of having missed something in your life? Something that you could have done (and did not) and would have made a world of difference to you? Reminds me off a caption "Life's calling, where are you?" (here though, it translates to "Life's tired of calling, where were you?")...

Let's see, tomorrow is yet another day....To be able to live one's dream, my friend, is as much a matter of courage and will power, as it is of destiny....