New Year resolution

The first month of 2008 is going to end. Still it is a new year, new month everything is new. A time when people start many things they had always wanted to do. It all starts with the New Year resolutions. Resolutions are always funny to hear. Though the people have noble intentions of achieving something, it ends up being very different for most of the people.Recently I have started blogging regularly (at least two posts for a week is regular for me). I was very happy for it. I felt as if I am writing a “regular featured” column in a leading newspaper. I had started this in the end of December and it had nothing to do with New Year or New Year resolutions.That day I had started from office at 8.15 pm. it was the last office bus that directly took me to my place, and I was happy to get into it. As I took the window seat, I saw my school buddy keerthi come. It was long since I had met him though he sat just two floors below me. It sounds strange in a world revolutionized by telecom technologies. People have still moved apart despite the development of technologies. Technology is just a medium. At last it ends up with the people utilizing it or not. There are many technologies which are more misused than used. The latter is more dangerous than the former one.

As the engine of the bus roared to life, and I started feeling the vibrations, a smile came to my face, just like a school kid reacting to the evening school bell. It was then that I started talking to Keerthi. We kept talking, basically discussing about the things happening in each other's life, in technical terms “updating” each other about various things right from the things at office to home, a 26 Km drive which swallows almost one and half hours of my life in a day.

Then we reached to that point of discussion. I had recently started putting my blog address in my email signature. Keerthi being a professional blogger, no wonder wanted to ask me about that. The first thing he asked me was “Do you post anything regularly?” It came suddenly and in a time I never expected. I had hardly posted anything. That was the truth, truth till few weeks ago. Things had changed. Changed for good. All the happiness of writing was washed away from my face for an instant. Then I told him that recently, I have started posting regularly.

Then immediately he shot his second questions. On hearing that I wondered the first one was a lot better than this one. “New year resolution? Will your blog have the same frequency during November 2008?” Hmm I don’t know if I had started at the right time or wrong time. Neither had I related this to the New Year resolution. But the time I have started had made people think that way.

I will leave it to time to answer the question.