Evolution

After a long time I had an opportunity to parse through all my previous posts. Right from the first blog to the latest one, I read it all. Not only did I read all my previous posts word for word but I read all the comments that were interspersed in between.

It was a refreshing experience as well as an exercise on introspection. It literally was a step by step diary of the evolution of my mind through these three years (almost three!). The first thing that I had to analyze was that how far a changed man was I through this whole period? Was I an idiot before and grown to be a wise man? Or was I a wise man earlier and grown into an idiot?

Other questions followed too. Now that I was reading my own posts, I at times felt as to why would I write such a thing? But this answer was clear enough. I could recall each of the motivations/momentous bursts of creativity that made me write those posts. If you would have read all my posts you would realize that my posts meander from observation to critical thinking. But yes, I could recollect the reasons for writing each one of my blogposts.

I could also see that previously there was a rash character into my posts. Youthful exuberance or youthful immaturity is for you to decide. But yes there is a sense of finality to my opinions that I have expressed in some of the matters which I now think I rather should not have done. As with the planet, animals and alike, our mind evolves too. People change as they grow. So opinions are bound to differ from one point in time to another.

I feel that I have mellowed down in my writing. Not in terms of content but in terms of tone and style. I do believe that it is a result of the conscious decision to edit and re-edit my blogs for grammatical errors, complex sentences and the pursuit of simplicity with minimum usage of complex words. I don’t claim my posts to be error free, but yes I do feel that the magnitude has gone down.

Experiences have made my blog the way it is today. I do like to ponder about little things which are mostly inconsequential. But our lovely mind likes to wander and thus the relations and analogies in my blogs. Most of you have enjoyed it, but in the same breath I admit some of you did not.

I remain a voracious reader as always.

Lately I have also ventured into short story writing on another blog of mine, the link for which you will find at the bottom of the page.

On introspection it has been a good journey so far. Thanks to all the people who have commented on my blogs. You all are a very integral part in what I feel I have accomplished so far. Your comments and brickbats, as always, are most solicited.

Just before I end this here I recollect one sentence from the book ‘Alchemy of Desire’ by Tarun Tejpal. The main protagonist is a writer himself. He says that the best of writers don’t put their creative words immediately on realization of an idea but over a period of time in a soft , leaky sort of way. They make fewer errors that way and are clear in the thought process while writing. This advice has stayed with me since. It works.