My first sincere attempt at blogging

At last here I come into the blogosphere... Are you scratching your head and tickling your gray cells as to where you might ve seen that one-liner... It is most probable that you would ve started to journey with me, when I undertook my several attempts at blogging in the past, only to find that the journey ended as abruptly as it started. The first time, being the perfectionist that I am, I spent an hour thinking about what name my blog should have as I felt it should be a reflection of a person's thoughts and attitude and came up with way too many options which made me ditch the attempt. After a month, I cooked up some weird name and was about to click on the create blog button, when I contemplated whether I would be active enough to keep posting regularly and the immediate answer was pessimistic. So I abandoned that attempt too. Then, for the third time, after intense pressure by loads of friends, who were blog-addicts and wanted to make me one too, I finally created blog and wrote the preamble (like i am writing now) and even posted an entry once. Then I got my hands on Fifa 08 and i was immediately addicted to it and so felt like blogging was a waste of time when I could spend it in playing fifa.

Now here I am at last with what will (hopefully) be my first sincere attempt at what is a pasttime-turned-addiction for many people, called blogging. In fact, it seems embarrassing and even taboo in today's world not to have a blog. Now why do people blog? There are two kinds of non-profit blogs in the world: one by means of which a person shares his thoughts with other people. These blogs are attractive and written keeping in mind the target audience, with the aim that the people reading the blog are delighted by it. In these blogs, the posts deal with a variety of subjects, that appeal to most people and which people can associate themselves with. And there is the other kind of blog, where the blogger writes for the happiness he gets in venting his feelings and expressing himself to no one in particular. He can blog his thoughts at will, however profound or uninteresting or controversial they may be without any fear of the society or other factors. The purpose of such a blog is only to please one's alter-ego. This blog is of the latter type which is written to vent my thoughts so that I would end up happier. The posts are not written keeping in mind that an audience would be reading it. A sincere blog should be a reflection of one's thoughts rather than a showpiece where one writes (about) stuff people want to read. And if my views end up drawing an audience unintentionally, it would be a bonus. I christened this blog pensieve because it gives me a medium to empty my thoughts when I am full of them and reflect upon these thoughts at leisure, analogous to the pensieve Dumbledore uses in the Harry Potter series.

I am a critic by nature and love to profoundly analyze things around me, however minuscule they may seem. And a critic who keeps his thoughts to himself is an oxymoron in itself. And what better way to share one's views than the blogosphere. So with the sense of duty of sharing my views flowing out of me, embark with me on this all new journey (in fact I hope to make it an odyssey) which I vow would not end abruptly like last time... Enough of this preamble... Fasten your seatbelts. Wheeeeeee!!!!! Here we go!!!!!