Why I do blogging

Blogging also holds some special significance to me as a mariner. On ships, we are suppose to be writing a ‘Mate’s Log book’ for every quaterly-day period. We grow up and reitre out doing this job each day without realizing the meaning of it—why is it required, how it came into practice, etc. Just recently, while listening to ‘Gyan Vani’ on radio, I heard a talk given by some renowned historian of India. He was discussing as to why it was difficult to unravel the history of India for a long period from ‘bla-bla’ B.C. to 10 or 12 century AD. He expounded that it was because Indian beliefs considered this world as Maya or an illusion; hence they never felt the need of recording any event or their own lives anywhere. In fact our system of learning was also ‘Oral’, requiring the Shishyas or the pupil to learn by heart every ‘shlok’ or the verse. Only around the time of Mughal’s did the people write books in praise of the ruler, which today become a source of uncovering the history.
I immediately felt that perhaps the remnants of the same principles reside in us even today. That is why we need to be trained on how to write the log and even then we continue to do practice of sweeping remarks— writing the ditto script of entry day by day, mechanically, without giving any heed to small events of any Watch hours. Log book, prima fascia, is a British System which we have adopted ditto without delving deeper into its purpose. Perhaps, British Naturalist Charles Darwin’s personal log books while sailing around on HMS Beagle became the draft work for ‘Ascent of Man’, ‘Origin of species’ and the theory of evolution.
Hey did I know that before!?
I felt a strong urge to take up the practice of Logging as early as I could even at personal level.