“In word salad, alas
drown I”
Odd name for a blog huh? Even more confusing when it’s all
together like in the web page url: inwordsaladalasdrowni.blogspot.in..
try that for a tongue twister..!!
Well if you know me, (which most probably you don’t) you may
say it’s a fitting name for a blog by a guy who struggles to get his thoughts
out in words lucidly unless he really makes an effort. I tend to talk
incoherently and most often end up going round and round without actually
getting to my point. Frustrating.. I know.. for you..!!
Confuse > Convince.
That’s me I guess..!! Not a great self-endorsement, but hey, if anything,
honest..
Enough about me though. Let me talk a little about myself
now. Well, actually about why I’ve decided to join the blogwagon to be precise.
For a while now, I’ve come across blogs by various people,
be it friends, colleagues, teachers, uncles, aunts, ex-girlfriend(s), old
enemies.. (phew..who does NOT do this..??).
I’ve found myself reading them, sometimes with a smile,
sometimes with a smirk.. and thinking to myself “Hey, this is a nice way to get
people to listen to what I have to say.. Lemme at it..!!”
And Tadaaaa..!! the result is in front of you..!!
(okay.. you’ll get
used to this if you keep reading my blogs...long sentence alert..!!)
But on my first attempt, when after about an hour or so of
sitting down with a word doc, all I had were about 10 sentences, which,
although nice-ish when read individually, bored and confused the hell out of me
when I read them together, I found myself looking at all those blogs, which I
read with a smirk, in a whole new different light..
The amount of thinking and work and editing the bloggers had
to do to publish their blogs..!!
Those endless nights burning the midnight oil..!!
The struggle to make
sure their words had the power to provoke thought, invoke introspection or just
simply put a smile on people’s faces..!!
Or then again, maybe they did it in a flash.. Maybe I’m just
slow..!!
Hold on.. let me get
that smirk back in place.. Those grapes are sour..!!
So given my limited ability, I guess I need time. Time to
get my thoughts together. Time to express
them with a semblance of clarity.
Clarity such that any layperson with inhuman patience, above
average comprehension, and very low expectations can breeze through, and get
what I’m saying.
And so, I begin my journey, promising myself that I will
publish just one blog a month. Keeping in mind the energies it will demand of
both me and the readers (if any)...
Now; knowing a few friends of mine, I’ll preempt a question
I’ll get asked eventually..
Why do I want to put
you through this? Well, I’ve been told I have a weird sense of humor. That
my words are like a candy with a hard shell coating of sarcasm. But get through
that shell, and I believe I do have some ability to connect with people and
make them smile. And it’s something I want to share.
I may seem like all fun and games. But I do have opinions.
And being an ultra-rational, unemotional and focused individual, (ooh.. I
feel like John Rambo now..!!) I believe those opinions may benefit a small
minority of my readers. I’ll put that minority estimate currently at about 1 in
a 1000.
But then again, if that means I need to get a 1000 people to
read my blog to make sure that YOU get any benefit out of it, I’ll say Good
luck with that..!!
The topics I want to write about through 2014 have yet to
find their place in my head. But as a thumb rule, I want to write about stuff
which is close to my heart, and I’m comfortable with. At least that’s what
Google tells me to do when I search for blogging tips..!
Fitness, Finance, Sports, Music and Business are
the topics which rush to my mind (in no particular order..as always). I’ll probably be writing on those to start
with. And the attempt will be to keep all the posts this sized so that neither
me, nor my readers lose the plot.
So if any of those topics interest you, do gimme a try.
And if they don’t, well let me know what else would interest
you. And I promise I’ll give it a shot. After all, I've got one month to kill it yeah??
So then, this is me, this is my blog, and if you get my
drift, see you next month. Hopefully..!!
But before you go, hold on a minute.. How did I begin this
again..?? Oh yeah.. the name..!!
In word salad, alas
drown i…
Did I mention I chose it not because it sounded like my
thoughts, but because it’s a palindrome..??
I’m sure you must’ve noticed it right at the beginning..
THAT was the
point I was trying to make..!! Silly me..!!
Here’s to a good year..!!
