Well there is this incredible urge to start off with a real smart line, something like, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", or thereabouts. 'Cos every great book or work in literature begins with one, well almost. But what the heck I don't think I am some Dickens and frankly I have given this question (and its answer) a lot of thought. but am yet to come up with a real mind-blowing quotation that will be quoted for time immemorial. Anyways I have been longing for a long long time to put a sort of a 'semi-autobiographical-story', just reflections and reactions to the big corundrum which is referred to as "life" by some.
So here I have the perfect oppurtunity to do the same - make a statement to myself and pen down thoughts and opinions and oh so many memories that come in each passing day. So hopefully I would not slack off and will continue to update this "journal" regularly and who knows maybe get it published some day, though who will publish it, or who will buy it is one big joke! I will follow a loose format, more or less follow my train of thoughts chronologically but will keep on referring and alluding to the past frequently and come up with anecdotes, etc from the same... up until the next time, adios!
So here I have the perfect oppurtunity to do the same - make a statement to myself and pen down thoughts and opinions and oh so many memories that come in each passing day. So hopefully I would not slack off and will continue to update this "journal" regularly and who knows maybe get it published some day, though who will publish it, or who will buy it is one big joke! I will follow a loose format, more or less follow my train of thoughts chronologically but will keep on referring and alluding to the past frequently and come up with anecdotes, etc from the same... up until the next time, adios!
posted by Saif at 3:45 AM
1 Comments:
It's funny! Firstly, you started writing in 2003! I can't even look back 7 years to see what I'd been doing then - CA, exams, classes, Articleship, chennai?!!
and one statement says ~ 'Well there is this incredible urge to start off with a real smart line' _ I must say that what you've started with is in itself a 'Great' beginning.
Secondly, you say "So hopefully I would not slack off and will continue to update this "journal" regularly and who knows maybe get it published some day" - ha, and you slacked off after the very first post ;-) Your second post is in AUg 2004!!!, unless you wrote some really scandalous stuff in between and deleted them!
Thirdly, after I read this first post of yours, I had this urge to go back and check what I'd written in my first post, first line - and guess what? I did make a grand beginning in the first line!! ~ "Tomorrow is the biggest day in my life, or so it seems, should logicaly have been the day of greatest significance in my life"
Anyways, such is life, and we've all come past so many years of reflecting and self-discovery! Nice post!
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