The First One

If you are reading this blog, it is quite likely that you know me. And if you know me, chances are that you would also know that I am not too ingenious or brilliant or a revolutionary thinker who would come up with a whacky, witty, out of the box idea for a first ever blog post. So, quite obviously, this one is going to be about why I started this blog.

I guess the name of the blog says it all. I decided to start this blog at a totally random moment with a totally random thought in a totally random mood. I decided to start this blog jlt about 10 minutes back just because I had put up a status update on facebook some couple of hours back and felt like putting up another update with another thought that was on my mind. With the goldfish memory* that I have, I of course don't remember now what it was but trust me i had a thought i wanted to share on facebook. Just that, I hate putting up status updates by the hour and flooding people's home pages with random updates that makes no sense to them or which I think most people would find irritatingly useless and arbit. So, courtesy of a totally random thought that I could express what I want to express through a blog, in a totally random context that I described above, I have decided to start writing my own blog. Having said that, I would of course put up the link to this blog as my facebook status update right away and I can not help that!!!

At the halfway stage of this post, I want to thank you for your best wishes for this blog and also for just in case you have decided to come back to this blog regularly in the future. I decided to write in this note of thanks at the half way stage since I was reasonably sure that unless you really like me, you would have decided to surf away from this post by now and I wanted to thank you for spending 5 useless minutes on this post, before you go away.

I want to add a comment or two about the intention of this blog. Quite clearly, this blog would be totally random. Being a management consultant by profession (right now), my default approach to anything is to outline an approach upfront (which is what I am doing right now with this sentence) and then solve for issues along the way - like I had this huge urge of describing the intended structure of this post right upfront and then dedicate a paragraph each to it. But, for some reason I want to keep myself from doing that intentionally. I don't know why. As for the topics that I would expect to cover on this blog - I don't know. I know that I am not someone who is intellectually super charged and highly opinionated, so do not expect any of those posts. Though I do hope to put up a few interesting ideas on this space soon. I remember that in the past couple of weeks I did have a couple of ideas that I found quite interesting and unique myself and think that they are worthy of this space. However, given the glodfish memory that I have, I really don't remember any of them right now. But I do hope that I would put them up.

Ok, now I know that there are two words / phrases that I have killed on this one through their frequent use - random and glodfish memory. I know, but I couldn't help it - those two are totally ringing in my head right now and I am trying hard to not use them again through the rest of this one.

Finally, I want to acknoweldge the fact that I am feeling a strange sense of happiness and relief after writing this post. I want to articulate why but I am afraid that I would kill the feeling If I do, so I wouldn't. At this point, I want to thank my bro for suggesting, for some random reason that I don't know of as yet, that I start writing a blog. So, here I am!!!!!