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.

Why I do Blogging?

Why I do blogging?
Blogging consist of word ‘weB + LOGging’. Thus it is a kind of dairy maintained over the internet. Many people maintain it like a daily log, recording their day to day activity, while others maintain it like a journal, recording their most intimate thoughts. Based on ‘settings’, Blogs can be made either private, or personal, or available to specific people only. Blogs help in giving a more elaborate description of our behaviour and thoughts to those who can access it. Blogs also help in enhancing communication with other people. In addition, they help us to vent out what ever strong feeling we have inside ourselves on any issue that we think about. Being more technocratic in nature, Blogs have numerous advantages over the conventional notebook kind of logs and journals.
I have often felt a dire need of preserving my thoughts and opinion on certain issue right at the time they were conceived and were still-fresh; and then record them as they change overtime. Sometimes I wonder how I would feel when I return to the infancy of my ideas and gauge how they changed or refined in due course. Hence, blogging.