Why why ?

A question that came about as an answer to 'what should i write now' ?
Its been more than a year now since i started blogging and i was wondering today , first - what to write ? and then since nothing came to my rescue, i just thought - why to write ? and then why to blog ?

hmmm..a medium to share my thoughts and feelings, a personal diary, a medium to communicate, to do something new, being in touch with ppl when iam physically far away with them, making new friends on the blogosphere, creating a web identity, etc etc..Looks like i got a lot of reasons. But a lot of it is bookish. So we are backto square one- why blog ?

But seriously, what i found most intresting is the fact that it allows me to 'write' - as plain simple as that.Sometimes i feel that after the academia, this generation ( includes me )does not really 'write ' much. We read, understand, listen, watch, eat , sleep, drink, run, talk, but when do we write?
Ask yourself when was the last time you wrote something. Especially in the field where iam in - its only spreadsheet ,spreadsheet and spreadsheets. MS Excel morning, noon and for dinner ... I read somewhere ( see..still 'read' . The 'Write'part is absent from our lives) that reading makes a good man..oops i forgot the exact phrase..but it ends something like -writing makes a perfect man... ( Not Raymonds !! )

It really helps - if not in getting structured thoughts, atleast in presenting thoughts in a strucutured manner - So that is one good reason i found.

I once did this also for my other favourite activity of running. While i believed that it improves my mindset, concentration, etc and did some research to know the proper way to run, the shoes one should wear, the surfaces that one needs to run, and other 'care' list, the benefits that i get etc etc. At the end of it , realised i dont need any of this gyaan. I just want to run for the hell of it . Why do i need a reason. The same for blogging maybe ...

The question now is - Why do we search for reasons everytime and not get about doing things we like to do ? That is the bigger question

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