Why do I blog?

Once a friend of mine asked me: why do I blog? Let me try to answer that question now.

First, life is a journey. We pass through different stages in life: early school days, college days, job life being a bachelor, marriage, kids etc etc. There are different moments  throughout these stages - some are special, some good or some bad - which constitute life. Then we move from one place to another for education, job or to see new places. We meet different people. Life is an interesting journey with all these. There is a related question: why do we take photographs of different moments? We want to capture different moments of our life. We want to capture time in pictures. But pictures capture only the outer side of a person. How did I look like when I was at school? I had a moustache in college. I was lean-and-thin before my marriage etc. I visited Agra and took a picture in front of the Taj Mahal. These are all the outer side of a person. But there is an inner side too of a person. The photographs don't capture it. The inner side consists of his mind, his thinking, his feelings etc.  I believe a blog can capture the inner side of a person during his journey called life.


Second reason for a blog is to learn from someone else's experiences. Nowadays we search the internet before buying any product: be it a dinner in a restaurant, a movie, a new place to visit, a hotel to stay, a school for your kid, a book to read, a new car to buy, even a medicine to buy etc etc. We can search it because there are people who share their experiences using these products. If I depend so much on other people to know their views, why shouldn't I also contribute to them by writing my experiences?

Third reason is introspection. How do I look back into my different frames of mind during different times? It's through my blog.

Fourth reason is a bit philosophical and related to the first one. What legacy will I leave when I leave this world someday? How people for whom I matter - my family, my good friends, will remember me? An actor will be remembered through his movies. A singer will be remembered through his songs. An author will be remembered through his books. I consider my blogs as my legacy.  My journey through life will be captured here.