"What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence, The only consequence is what we do."
This famous quote by John Ruskin was one of my
major source of motivation all throughout the phase from the very inception of
the idea of blogging in my mind an year ago to the day this idea transformed
into a reality. Honestly Speaking, the desire to start blogging stuck me about
an year ago but it was only by now that I was able to put my heart into it…….An
year ago I thought was the perfect time to start blogging simply because I was
out of another phase of my life then…. College days, and there were too many
things that I was raring to drop a line on……..about my experience at college. I
did not live an extraordinary college life but I did enjoy most parts of those
4 years in my own way. Made a lot of friends, learned a lot, had lots of fun,
crushes……….the list goes on. Besides, I can assure you that my experience at
college did influence me in a lot of positive ways so much so that I can
righteously feel the difference I have attained in the level of my personality
and confidence compared to the level of my strengths 4 years back.
But when asked about something special that I will
cherish for my entire life from the pages of my college reminiscence, I always
got drifted towards a state of perplexity. As days went by, I realized that all
those memories I gathered from my college, which I cuddled to while stepping
down from the academy and which I thought will always stay close to my heart as
an epitome of bliss and delight slowly got altered to the semblance of
insignificance and triviality. This ambivalence I developed towards my college
memories can be, to a great extent, attributed to the level of involvement I
got into with the latter developments in my life that I hardly had any time to
think about my past. And over this period of one year, those memories got laid
down over by the days and weeks that followed. And even though till a month
ago, recalling those old days didn’t fail to bring a smile on my face every
time I mulled over it…. It let me down in giving the kind of motivation I was
looking for to start realizing my blog.
Since a couple of months ago, I have been amidst
a lot of happenings……..new job, new place and new people. Suddenly, I started
learning and comprehending a lot of new things around. I could feel the change
I was going through in all my character idiosyncrasies. My approach and my
attitude towards people and life found new dimensions and I sensed that this
change was the result of the wisdom and experience I was going through each
day. That’s when I learned that the prominence of knowledge was beyond my
imagination and that there is a plethora of opportunities around us. The zeal
to start doing something constructive, meaningful and beneficial stuck me and
the result was the birth of this blog.
I know there are millions of blog already
surviving the varying tastes of the readers but majority of them are very much ineffectual and
inconsequential when it comes to the content and intend. I really believe that
blogging is a powerful social tool and has got much more to offer beyond a
virtual page to list your everyday activities and events. But if someday I hear
that majority of these blogs are being actively used for knowledge diffusion
and valuable discussions, I would be the happiest person. I intend to use my
blog in the best of possible ways. Going ahead, I wish this blog be transformed
into a platform where the best of things be discussed about and the worst of
things be condemned. I wish each one of us here have the liberty to express and
share ideas and notions and finally I wish this blog be transformed to an arena
where virtues be personified and principles be build. And this wish can only be
fulfilled with your active support and involvement.
A man’s life is an amalgam of different phases
namely childhood, teenage Adulthood and teenage. As we conclude from each of
these phases and step into the next, what remains with us will be some traces
of memories from our yesterdays and this traces starts to fade away as we get
into the peak of the latter phase. This phenomena transpires all along our
existence and to the last what we are really left with will be the best of
reminiscences we muster over our life time. I hope years later, when I look
back to my better days, the thoughts about this blog would only enrich us with
satisfaction and content.
