Blogger's Block!

Imagine of all the ailments possible suffering from an acute blogger's block! No there is no such recognised ailment in the world. And yes, i made it up by borrowing heavily from writer's block. Time was when i would have various issues to write up on....I had views on almost everything under the sun.... my being knowledgeable had nothing to do with it...rather my lack of knowledge and it's accomplice wisdom gave me strength: it's true, what they say- fools rush in where angels fear to tread & the other one- Ignorance is bliss!

No! I havn't gained enlightenment all of a sudden now. Merely that after being in the twitterland and then buzzland, my old blog writing days have suddenly become a fond memory. Why write more, when you can say it in 140 words? And to top it all you can keep doing it as frequently as possible...even from your omnipresent phone. Guess the blogger's are a dying breed now.... dinosaurs in the age of apeman.

I sure hope that the above scenario does not come true, for both mediums are complementary as well as supplementary to each other. Blogging is a serious matter. The amount of information that you can give, the analysis you can do, the thoughts that you can pen; is vastly superior in case of blogging. Try telling what you had for lunch on your blog. I dare you! You can't. That has to go on to newer emerging digital platforms like Twitter. A blog is inherently a serious matter, not a place to put frivolous matter. So it may continue to survive after all!

Now to the blogger's block. When and how did I reach this stage is a mystery to me. Though not exactly a doyen of blogging, i would find time and energy to write something from time to time. But somehow this feeling of writing dried up, instead of being enthused by the idea of blogging i started dreading it. The issues over which i always felt strongly suddenly started appearing mundane to me. That was when i first realised that something was not well, that some piece of puzzle was missing from my life. So now i have decided to start writing once again...torturous though the process seems to me... for writing is also a means a knowing oneself, and as the ancient Greeks said, " Know Thyself" was the beginning and end of every person's journey.

The only discernible side effects of being in twitterland is that writing long passages seems to be a burden now. The macro view has given way to micro view now. Maybe that's a blessing, may be that's a curse. Which one only time will tell. For now only one thing matters : overcoming the blogger's block.

Bhavatu sabba Mangalam! May all beings be happy!