Tuesday, June 30, 2009

If you please, Sir!

I was against the idea of blogging till about 45 minutes ago. I felt quite absurd about the whole concept of you writing a 'diary' of sorts which is not at all personal. I mean, aren't we supposed to keep our feelings to ourselves?! Why need we share it with people who may not even be interested in it? Trust me, I was never fond of reading blogs. I thought, "How do they even bother me?" Well, I was wrong. Acceded. And this transformation is because of a certain 'modest' being who put my perspective in place quite beautifully in the following way;

'Write to please others. And when you are writing, you can abuse anybody.'

This is why I am starting a new page in life (quite literally!). I write with a sense of scepticism, and a hope that what I express here should not be subject to hypercritical judgement by the virtuosos.

I was also afraid of writing because I was never the 'Mr. Fantabuluous Vocabulary' type. Always being a simpleton, I wondered why was there a word such as 'lackadaisical' when it could have been easily expressed as 'lazy'. I was never fond of big words and always felt claustrophobic in the presence of those who kept ranting them. I was never like them. And till date, I squirm when I read the blogs of these 'higher mortals'.

I don't know why you would like to read something as morbid as this. But I do know for a fact that what I write here will be something very 'me'. It may give you an insight into who I am. To start with, I am the hermetical Platonist. I am not your average dreamer. I don't dream of perfection. I don't dream to conquer.

Then why do I dream?

I dream because it is inherent in human nature to dream. To dream of loss, of victory, of failure, of glory and above all, to dream of dreaming. I dream to make my dreams come true. I dream of a boy standing at a crossroads wanting to go this way, forced to go the other. I dream of a hooded mademoiselle standing at the corner of the boulevard, gradually drifting into the darkness of the night.

I know this is not a good way to start the momentous first blog. But I do believe that I owe an honest disposition to my writing. I shall henceforth write about moments in my life. Good moments, as well as the not-so-good ones. Experiences, I'd like to refer to them as. Some very personal, some quite well known. Do bear with me till then.

I do not intend to bore you any further. In conclusion, it can be said that I am a traveller who embarks on his journey with a hope of never reaching his destination...


16 comments:

  1. Nice first post.
    Welcome to blogosphere!
    :)

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  2. Oh well, I didn't pass out after all.

    And another blog finds its place on my bloglist.

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  3. Frankly, I still am not convinced, Why Blog?
    I write stuff in the back of my notebooks, never care to write them out in blogs.
    It was almost like I started blogging for namesake...
    Or does it all come down to one single line...
    Is the world a wannabe?

    P.S.- Not word verification, again!

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  4. Initially, I thought I read Hermetical Platonist didn't really like using high-funda words. Was I to be proved wrong? I wonder. Looking forward to more of your arguments towards the same or otherwise.

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  5. So the Hermetical Platonist has arrived...
    Nice one to start with.

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  6. Nice Blog!!!
    Best of luck for the journey ahead

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  8. Congrats dude!! So ultimately you landed on blogs.. :P
    Good beginning..

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  9. Writing a blog is not a sign of being a wannabe I reckon. I say that with conviction because a 'wannabe' would write articles projecting himself as the 'cool one'. A blog can be very personal too, Kartik.

    Murty, I do not like tall order words. But the hermetical Platonist, I must confess is the thesaurus' version of a hidden dreamer. A term more comprehensible to me.

    Thank You Ashish.

    Yes Himanshu. I am on the blogosphere. It feels strange though. :)

    Hey Nerd (lol!), thank you! Though I would like you to tell me who you are. i hope I don't sound overtly offensive!

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  10. At long last, everyone seems to be here... Well, almost!

    Anyway, I'm glad to hear that 'Hermetical Platonist' 'accedes' to the fact that he feels 'claustrophobic' in the presence of gargantuan words uttered by 'virtuosos' :)

    Welcome agaiN!

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  11. Looking forward to more of this: "you can abuse anybody"....

    Cheers and welcome to the club. :D

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  12. Well Anirudh, a lil' bit of Princeton Review does rub you on the wrong side now, doesn't it?

    Thank You Shreyas!

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  13. Hey, nice to see you here, and someone who's promising not to rant bombastic words... :P
    Welcome :-)

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  14. I think we can xpect sumthing out of ur "exeriences" in RJB

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