Why I maintain a weblog

I started posting to this website a little over two years ago. Considering the average age of weblogs is around four or five months before it’s abandoned, this one’s a rebellious teenager in blog-years. The intensions of mine at that time was to spread opinions, news, and reviews. Now, two years down, I keep my opinions to myself, if I even bother forming one. I couldn’t care about news and reviews and despise those sort of publishing joints.

When a friend of mine tried to take down her website and disappear forever, after moving, erasing and changing her stance on her weblog quite a few times. I felt similarly too, once upon a time. Partly because I get these mad itches to change things. Sudden pangs to move to a different weblog engine, to design a theme from scratch, and even the desire to change the entire direction, and cull all the posts that don’t fit the direction.

Then the logical, and surprisingly minimalist side of me asks: Why? Why break something that’s been working fine? And I cannot respond.

The most beautiful part, as I now realize, is to be able to look back on yourself, like a time capsule. For some reason, I have a very very weak memory. I frequenty encounter things that I did not fully remember doing (for example, I found out I own ninjagod.com ), and it feels nice to remember what I felt during certain periods of time.

But the most important thing is this:
My main goal in life is to grow and change for the better. And this weblog seems to be physical proof that I have.

Be it the style, or content of writing. Be it how busy I am to post things, or simply how clever the quips are, the proof is in the utf-8 encoded pudding.

3 Responses to “Why I maintain a weblog”


  1. 1 Shankar Ganesh

    I’ve actually blushed looking at some of my oldest blog posts :)
    Things have improved since then.

  2. 2 ady

    I found it also very important the maintaining

  3. 3 Ankesh Kothari

    I’ve started and shut down at least half a dozen personal blogs. Writing helps clarify my thoughts. So I start them. But I’ve never had the discipline you have to keep them personal blogs going. Bravo!

    (Fortunately, I’m more disciplined with work related blogs.)

    So what are you upto these days Anirudh?

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