Why do you blog?

Seth Godin blogs to promote his books I feel. But then he is promoting some gems, and doing it so well. Anyway, am sure a lot of people have asked a lot of people why people blog. So there is nothing new here. However, I needed to get certain things in perspective. Especially when going through intense blogstipation. Now this sounds like the death knell for any pro.blogger (something that I fancy myself to be) and I felt the need to rise out of it.

Since the 20th century it has always been my left brain that is working, I know it is my left..I have never been right. That leaves me with an eye for analysis and detailing. Figured I need to go deep down to figure out how to get back to blogging after nearly a month out in the wilderness.

So tracing back history. I started blogging quite some time ago to honestly impress people with my astute thinking and mesmeric writing abilities (ah woh din bachpan ke..). Pretty soon I was sharing out unnecessary details of my life to absolute strangers (mujhe pyaar hua tha na..) and felt I needed to rein my thoughts.

Then came the phase of showcasing capabilities, my creativity. I made this blog validate my claims at being a social stooge, made another one thelimitless to polarize my thoughts at the other end of life the deep and the poetic. Of course even poetry found its space online which was particularly aimed at one person who it seems never happened to read it.

Point of the matter being that like most wannabe attention seeking pup my blogging was always for the others. A place to vent my insecurities of acceptance further. There was a not so marked shift in this thought while blogging at thelimitless blog, where I genuinely felt I am preaching my school of thought about life irrespective of what the reader makes of it. Yet, like I said before here again the style of writing and basic premise of the blog was showing off.

I guess that makes me a showcase blogger.

Times have passed and blogging has taken over my life and brought it to an altogether different level. To the point that I am contemplating making a career out of it. I have written more posts in the last 5 months than an entire year before that. IF writing daily is not a criteria I am managing around 5 blogs at the moment with more lined up.

Again the purpose this time around is not so much appreciation of the man that I am as much as it is to add value on a general level to whosoever reads my blogs. A more steadied and business like approach to most of them. At this juncture it feels nice to be back here and list my experiences as it is. Will this thought remain.. honestly am not too sure.. I make vows to break them.. let's hope this stays.