A Fresh Start!

During the last few months, I’ve received a few e-mails, scraps and comments asking why I don’t blog any more. One of the most recent ones even asked: “is life no longer funny or have you found yourself a girlfriend, or worse gotten married (which, acc. to most guys, sucks all the joy out of life).”

The answer is, in short, no. In long, however, life continues to be immensely funny. Every movie I watch, I want to make fun of it on the blog and most things I see and experience daily, I want to point out the funny side here. But there is one major obstacle to this activity: the internet. Everytime I have an idea and sit myself down to type out a post on it, my mind is constantly telling me, that just one click away, is:

• Youtube (with its magnificent collection of videos starring Vijaykanth, Balayya, T. Rajendherr and other members of the Sam Anderson school of acting)
• Facebook (where multiple hours can be wasted on absolutely nothing)
• Porn (which obviously needs no further explanation)

The internet is thus a major obstacle to what I need in order to come up with a post, namely a couple of hours of peace and quiet. And this just cannot happen if GTalk is constantly telling you someone wrote on your wall, or someone compared you to their friends and decided you have less mother potential. This is why Shakespeare was so successful. Seriously, if you think about it, all the great writers were around only when there was no Internet. Then the 90s arrived, the World Wide Web was invented, and BAM! We’re left with Chetan Bhagat.

Nevertheless, every now and then, there’s something I see or hear that I just HAVE TO blog about, and so I shut out all connectivity with the rest of the world and sit down to type. Like, for example, the end of 2007. I felt I just had to write a year summary and so, I started typing, “By most accounts, 2007 was a fascinating year. These accounts are, to use the correct technical term, wrong. Schoolboys of the future, when they read about 2007 in their history books, will regard it with a great deal of affection, because it will be the shortest chapter. And also because it will feature pictures of Britney Spears without her underwear.”

Now, as a blogger who takes his work very very seriously, I would never, NEVER make statements that are factually incorrect.* So obviously, I needed to verify my statement about Ms. Spears. And so I connected to the Internet again. And within seconds of typing out the required search string into Google, the unfinished post was only a distant memory. Now you see what happened there? This is how the World Wide Web slowly creeps up behind you, sucks you in and holds you by your sensitive parts till you promise you’ll never ever try to escape it again. That’s how hard this blogging business is.

The end result of all this is that I have a number of word documents on my computer that are about one paragraph long. There are maybe a couple of longer ones, but that’s only because my London neighbour, whose wireless Internet I was stealing, had turned off his router one evening. The rest of the time I just didn’t have any decent ideas. That’s why this blog is named ‘Mostly Thoughtless’.

However, I firmly believe, or at least want to, that this dry phase is over, now that Britney Spears has gone out of the public eye, and that the new distraction-free me will try to blog whenever he can. All those of you who still regularly check up on this blog, I cannot thank you enough. I needed a fresh start, and that’s why I’ve moved to WordPress. Do keep visiting, as always! Hopefully, things will get livelier from now on. Take care, everyone. Cheers!

* except when it suits me.