What made me Blog ??

I have been blogging quite some times now, not regularly tough but ocationally.

All these times i was always thinking about what i am blogging about and never have this thought occured to my why am i blogging? and what made me to start blogging?.

Thinking about this i recalled memories about my past blogging. This blogsite was not the first which i started my blog, infact i do not even remember the URI of my first blogsite. But I do remember what i blogged about, it was about a local trip of mine with my friends and i had few memories which i could share it in the block as the trip had few incidents which was funny to remember.

Again that tells me what i blogged about but not why i started blogging.

To be true i may have to accept that i started blogging not out of interest, not out of curiosity but in seek of attention. I am a software engineer and its no wonder that people around me know about blogging and some were already blogging at the time i started my carrer. I used to be around those blogging people(B-people I used to say) and many people in that company came to him and he was recognised by many no matter where ever he goes and what ever he does. This created interest for me to blog. I wanted to be in that position and I wanted to create attention and awareness about my presence to all those around me, so I decided to create a blog for myself.

Now created the blog, what to write? Like all the novice users i too started to read others blog before deciding about what to write and how to write. I have visited many blog sites and read few blogs and i couldnt able to decide what all these says and what topic would suite me to blog. Days went on and the counts of the blogs i visited increased, later i realised the fact that its blogging and you can share any of your thoughts no matter what you write there will be someone who will read what ever we write. This boosted my confidence to start writing a blog. About at the same time we(My Friends and I) went for a trip to some falls and I decided to write a blog about it.

Neither did I do any analysis nor did I care about what i am writing in the blog. My mind is filled with thoughts that "I am writing a blog". I didnt strain much in completing my first blog to say it truely I finished the blog in hours and then posted it. Now the thought of drawing attention was completely out of my mind as I was appreciating myself for successful completion of the blog. It didnt really occur to me that I need to advertise it so that other will read it.

The enthusiasm of completing the blog suppressed slowly after couple of days. Now being back to normal I was expecting other to come to me and say something about my blog, be it good or bad(ofcourse I was praying that I should recieve some good coments). But nothing happened and then a sudden curiosity occured to me to check the number of hits that my blog took. Being novice i do not know all these tricks, I started surfing the net again.

No wonder I got the solution immediately after googling for some time. I started exploring the option. The blogger site itself provides these kind of option, all we need to do is follow the steps. Placing the counter in my blogsite I waited for a week then opened my blog to check the counter and as you all anticipate it was still counting the same may be got increased by one as i visited the blog again. Only then I realized no matter whatever we write and how good we write we need to get it advertised to attract people.

Afraid of posting my blog in any public forum. I decide to send a mail to my relatives and friends(note i didnt want to open it to my colleagues as well as i an afraid of critics)and then i started recieving feedback. some said it was nice(though they know how horrible my presentation was) and some said it was not bad for the first time writer and some laughed at me writing a blog and some even threatened me saying that you are sharing information in the net and bla! bla! bla!.

That was my starting point to blog, and I am happy to say that my presentation skills has been improved by blogging but still I am working on improving it more and most of all blogging gives me the satisfaction that i am able to tell something to someone that lessens the burden in my heart.

Go Blogging Go !!