Why should I blog?
Friday Nov 04, 2005
Once a week, Kimberley and I talk, mostly about work, but many times about anything and everything - New England Weather, pot holes in Bangalore roads, jabs needed for a first time visitor to India, Horses and, of course, New England Weather.
Did I mention New England Weather? 
In a conversation a few weeks ago, Kimberley asked me if I blogged. I said, "yes". Though I was syntactically correct, I left the call thinking, "Do I really blog?". Because in the last twelve months I have blogged only twice, not including this one. When Kimberley repeated the question in our next call, I said to myself, "Alright, you better start blogging again!", so here I am.
One of the things that I have not had the time to really ponder over is my hesitation to blogging. I wanted to understand what really was the mental block. It was not like I do not like to write. In fact, that is one thing I love to do, be it typing an email, putting together a business memo or even writing a fiction (though in Tamil). Then, what was it?
Though the answer's not in 'black and white', I could think of some faint reasons:
* Being an ISTJ (MB Type), I think I was not too comfortable blogging without understanding the mechanics of blogging, the back end behind blogging, the culture of blogging and the need for doing so - which led me to do some reading about blogging, on Wikipedia.
* Fear of exposing myself: Somehow, blogging, to me has a connotation of talking about one self only, which I was not sure was a polite thing to do in a public forum (not a difficult barrier to overcome, I suppose).
* Fear of being seen as opinionated, irrespective of how much I truly could be!
* Fear of saying inappropriate things and making a fool of myself in public.
* and reservations that I cannot put my finger on.
But, in the end I figured that none of the above came close to the joy of writing and *sharing*, so here I am.
Thanks Kimberley, am hoping to be seen around these circles more.
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