Blog'amia!

I am not a very regular blogger, neither do I have the literary background of a naturally aspired author, nor is my vocabulary exhaustive, yet i blog, once in a while. Other reason maybe that I belong to those many who are so busy doing nothing that they simply cannot find time to do anything else.

I was going through some blogs of my friends and non friends, impressive is the word that comes to my mind when i see their blogs with those tons of archive links to their previous blogs! They sure deserve to get some recognition for their blogabilities!

It makes me ponder as to how and why people blog? How do they manage to get time to blog so regularly? Perhaps, answer is in the fact that if you find something worthwhile, you automatically adjust your schedule so as to make time for that activity. Obviously the next question that pops up is 'what' do these bloggers find so compelling a reason to blog on a routine basis? Also, 'why' do they blog?

I think that answers the 'why' part of the question? Perhaps all we are now seeking for is self recognition, to boost our ego's, to make an impression, to be heard, to be complimented, to feel elated! So competitive we have become today, so very materialistic, so very self absorbed, so very developed! And yet, we feel that loneliness, that longing, that craving to find others of our liking, who will agree on our views and applaud them. Or is this a whiners analysis who always sees the world as one big black-hole? Maybe the 'why' can be explained by the surplus demand of fellow bloggers and netizens who have the hunger to read other peoples opinions, maybe since they have nothing else to do? Maybe they are intellectuals who want to know what the whole world thinks?

Some time back an article in the newspapers suggested that blogging has given us the power of self expression. Has it? It might be true, but didn't we already get this power when we were blessed with the ability to communicate with fellow beings using pictures, expressions and languages? But then why has blogging become so popular? Is it simply the human tendency to always want for more? More power to self express? Boom! there came the newspapers... Some more? Boom! books.. music... prose... Still some more? Bang! Internet... chatting... websites...skype.... blogging...social networking sites!..Some more perhaps?

Where does this end? With my power of expression, my freedom of speech, my views, my opinion, me & mine... the line starts blurring as technology gives way for newer means to feed our desire for more, making us more self absorbed than before. Result? We see so many of us blogging our thoughts, not sure how many are reading them though! Ironic it is, this new tool of blogging has definitely given us the power or freely expressing our views, with the potential to reach the entire world, assuming of-course that all over the world literate people have access to Internet!

Perhaps the need for self expression emerges from a rather dark gory reality. We are distancing ourselves from our near and dear ones, people who matter to us, those who in turn care for us! Only if we could communicate more freely, openly and frequently, to the ones who matter, if we could lend our ears to the ones whom we care about, perhaps then, this burning sense of reaching to the whole world would subside and the inner sense of gratitude and satisfaction would prevail.