I had been thinking about this for quite sometime now; about maintaining a blog. Long back I did started a blog but only to put some crap. After that I never posted anything. Often I used to wonder what I should post on my blog. But, after reading quite a few blogs (some crappy, some interesting, some informative) of people I know, I thought of doing it all again. Now after months of unproductive thinking, I am starting it all over again.
The other day, when I opened Google home page, I was wondering what I should search for. Blankly looking at the home page for a while, I thought of googling not so famous random souls. I typed one my friend’s name. Her name is little uncommon. Not many people have that name. I was expecting only a few results but to my surprise, Google searched about 64 results in 0.34 seconds. And yes, they were positively hers! I was little taken aback. Then I typed another friend’s name. It showed a lot more links and pages compared to previous one. And it was positively him. I repeated the same with 3 more names of the people I knew. Google found them out as well. Then I thought of trying mine. To my surprise I was not even on the 5th page! There were several other people with my name, but I was absolutely no where.
I thought, What does it takes for one to come on Google? An uncommon name? a weird picture? Admission in IIMs? Working for a top company? Well, How does it matter! Or does it?
Well back to maintaining the blog, the hobby is being pursued merely as a 'catharsis'. Hope it serves the purpose. Though
some of the things that I would write will be absolutely non-sense, with the worst of English and the funniest usage of grammar that anyone could ever come across, and many few people will be reading it, but like I said, its more of a 'displacement activity', than a creative undertaking.
