It has been long time I had been thinking of creating and writing in my own blog, probably from the time somewhere in mid may 2010, when I was relatively free and was doing lot of surfing. It was the same time lots of celebrities started their blogs and all newspaper reported their fan following and views. This made my feeling strong that blogs could be strong platform to connect with people.
But immediately the new question popped in my mind? Am I a celebrity to the outside world that I would have followers or people connect? And the answer was simple ‘No’ and thus probably put the blogging on back burner. Now when I am writing this I realize how narrow my thinking was about the blogging… perhaps would have not changed if there wasn’t that article in Times of India.
Now back in early November 2010, I was as per my daily habit was reading everything related to IT and technology, I came across the article mentioning how a small kid of 11 years writing his blog on daily basis about the activities and memories of his school and activities and how his elders encourage it via their comments and feedback… it was something made a kill of me…
Blogs could be excellent depiction of your memories and your views about the world around you. It would de facto let you know at any point of life, how your views changes over period of time… this is the sole reason I created this blog… to capture my memories, my thoughts and my view about the world around me…
Importance of remembering events in once life cannot be quantified. I made it my priority to note down on SBS calendar year on year all the important events during the final school days and entire college life, preserve it in my room, lately to realize that I lost all of them, and there went all the happy and sad memories… I never invented another good method till date and I always have a flat face when my wife asks me a question, ‘On which date we first meet?’ Honestly speaking I don’t remember that date, in spite she tell me that almost every time as answer to this question without getting pissed off, perhaps b’coz she knows it very well how I am with dates and time!!!
This brought me to this blog, which I created promptly in November 2010, but as my well-known habit, couldn’t blog anything as I am poor in implementation of extra activities!!! But enough is enough, here I go and have decided will blog important event on weekly basis… lets c how good I could be… As of now, I am going to blog all the stuff which I think I want to remember when I became old (obviously by age and never by heart) as memories or should I coin my special word ‘Remembrances’ this could be anything, quotes, stories, articles, incidents, observations, events in short anything and everything…
There is one more thing I want to pen down before I put an end to this blog and that is about its title, ‘Another Common Man’… which bear a direct relationship to what I mentioned at start of the blog… I am not a celebrity, leader, politician, ‘king of world’… I am just another common man… probably a similar version of R. K. Laxman’s common man.
Request to all the audience, you read this blog, to share their views as I am open for any thoughts and guidance, specially critics, b’coz I believe that would help sharpen my thoughts… any memories of your with me, regarding me will always find a space in this blog, however good or cruel it might be so feel free to email those to me…
Wishing myself a happy blogging :-)
