Why did I start blogging?

Why did I start blogging? It is not that I am a very creative person and can't wait to let the world know of my flowing thoughts. And also it is not that I have a great vocabulary. I don't have a great sense of humour either. One of my cousins noted thus "He is pretty intense even while having fun - pretty serious about everything including enjoyment" - guess, it kind of sums me up. With such a boring personality, why did I ever try my hand in blogging?

This is a question I have asked myself many a times before I write anything. Though I may not be a creative person, I have my opinion on many things, around me, around my work place, around my home, around my city, around my country and around my world. I dwell on my little opinions a little too much, that I sometimes I do come up with well-rounded thoughts that could be put in writing. I haven't put many of those thoughts in pen and paper and hence I wouldn't be able to remember it two days later - only the feeling of "Oh I had a fantastic thought, pity that I don't remember all of it!" remains. To kill that feeling, I have started blogging. A majority of those thoughts may seem pretty useless after a couple of days, hence I decided I will publish the blogs only a week after I write it, which would give me enough time to think, re-write, re-word or completely trash the blog. My thoughts may not worth a penny to anyone else, but I would need to treasure those thoughts and hence this blog. Because, if even I don't treasure my own thoughts myself, there is little or no chance that anyone else will.

However, I don't have much experience in writing. There are a few of 4 page hand-written letters that I wrote to my friends, which I treasure the most. There were a couple of personal, emotion-ridden emails, which I thought had been constructed very well.

Oh, well, I did write something about "Optimism" in a notebook, intended to be my personal autograph notebook during my college farewell, which I had lost even before the farewell party - not that it matters, because the write-up didn't make even my best of friends understand what I was trying to say. I basically ended up making a long and torturous lecture which could be summed up in one sentence - "If you are optimistic, you can get a positive out of the person you hate the most, which is the first step towards not hating that person". Well, I still believe in that - just that I don't have the intention to torture people again with that long lecture.

Apart from the above few brushes with writing, I haven't done anything much in terms of writing and hence I may not publish all what I write.

Oh, one last thing - If the blog name "Crazy Thoughts" made anyone think that this would be a comedy blog, I would like to clarify that it is not a comedy - my thoughts are crazy alright, but the fact that I have thoughts, in itself, is a tragedy.