Reviving the Blog
My last blog post was in October or November last year… after that I didn’t bother to post another blog…
Why? Someone asked…
I had time… and topics to write… I am still to finish my blog series on Anatolia… and start the blog series on Persia… and have the main pointers for content ready… then why didn’t I write.
There were, I guess, some internal factors and some external.
Firstly the external factors… I started blogging as a tool of self expression… it was a time, when blogging as an activity was raging on. Everybody had a blog of his or her own… and I thought I should also have a blog… so I did get one for myself as well.
Eventually I discovered that I can communicate my travel experience with the help of blogging and therefore started writing about my travels… it was a great experience… writing made me observe more… and the more I observed… the more pointers did I get to write.
But there was a change happening on the internet… called Twitter. Suddenly I saw the advent of what is called – micro-blogging… it changed the world of blogging… and most of the people who were into the former… moved to latter. From Blogging to Twittering.
There was another phenomenon which happened… Social Media… I had a Facebook account… and I started pasting my travel photos on that… and could write a running commentary about my travel with the help of photos and small commentary ala tweets. I thought that I was able to communicate about my travels through it. And I really was… but only to my FB friends, some of whom interested… and some not really interested.
The internal changes were about getting emotionally busy… I stopped writing blog in October/November… when my departure from Kandahar was imminent… and I developed a kind of fear… I wished that the last phase of my stay passes away peacefully… it was a very very strange phase… the large part of my journey was over… and only few days remained. Then, I came to India met my family… and tried to catch up with my kids… something that I had missed terribly. And then was the time to pack my wares and move to Saudi Arabia along with my family. The whole sequence of events left me emotionally void of any urge to write a blog.
But then in last few days… I have restarted feeling the urge to write… to connect with people… to connect with myself… and therefore, in days to come I would revive my blog for another stint…
Wish me luck…
Why? Someone asked…
I had time… and topics to write… I am still to finish my blog series on Anatolia… and start the blog series on Persia… and have the main pointers for content ready… then why didn’t I write.
There were, I guess, some internal factors and some external.
Firstly the external factors… I started blogging as a tool of self expression… it was a time, when blogging as an activity was raging on. Everybody had a blog of his or her own… and I thought I should also have a blog… so I did get one for myself as well.
Eventually I discovered that I can communicate my travel experience with the help of blogging and therefore started writing about my travels… it was a great experience… writing made me observe more… and the more I observed… the more pointers did I get to write.
But there was a change happening on the internet… called Twitter. Suddenly I saw the advent of what is called – micro-blogging… it changed the world of blogging… and most of the people who were into the former… moved to latter. From Blogging to Twittering.
There was another phenomenon which happened… Social Media… I had a Facebook account… and I started pasting my travel photos on that… and could write a running commentary about my travel with the help of photos and small commentary ala tweets. I thought that I was able to communicate about my travels through it. And I really was… but only to my FB friends, some of whom interested… and some not really interested.
The internal changes were about getting emotionally busy… I stopped writing blog in October/November… when my departure from Kandahar was imminent… and I developed a kind of fear… I wished that the last phase of my stay passes away peacefully… it was a very very strange phase… the large part of my journey was over… and only few days remained. Then, I came to India met my family… and tried to catch up with my kids… something that I had missed terribly. And then was the time to pack my wares and move to Saudi Arabia along with my family. The whole sequence of events left me emotionally void of any urge to write a blog.
But then in last few days… I have restarted feeling the urge to write… to connect with people… to connect with myself… and therefore, in days to come I would revive my blog for another stint…
Wish me luck…
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