Ashesh Badani's Weblog..: Past, present and future

So I enter the blogosphere with some trepidation. I am a fairly avid reader of blogs and am amazed by both the incredible wisdom and the utter inanity I find out there. One thread I found common among a lot of the more popular blogs was the ability to be controversial, intentional or otherwise.

I consider myself opinionated but not controversial. Hence, I thought there was really no point writing a blog since nobody would be interested in reading it anyway. So what changed? An entry on Seth Godin's blog where he says that even if nobody reads your blog, the very act of writing it forces you to be clear in your thoughts and makes you "approach writing with humility". Clarity and respect. If blogging can do that, I figure I ought to give it a shot.

I wonder if the so-called A list bloggers feel like Jim Carrey's character in the film "The Truman Show" when he finally manages to escape from his make-believe world in a boat and bumps into a wall and stares right into the camera realizing that it is beaming a close-up of his face to millions of viewers. Since I am so far away from that phenomenon, I feel more like a little goldfish in a glass bowl looking out at the family that brought him home from the petstore...hello world, please be gentle and remember to feed me regularly!

My next blog entry will be a little more about me and what I find interesting...the things that I am curious about and make me ask why...