“ನೀನ್ಯಾಕೆ ಒಂದು blog ಬರೀಬಾರ್ದು?” Sri asked me one afternoon. “Blog’ ಆ? ಹಾಗಂದ್ರೆ?” My blissful ignorance at times scoffs at my friends’ learning and shocks them out of their complacency. Specially when they realize that “common” terms simply don’t figure in my vocabulary. Well, no regrets here. Not even a pinch of it. “Oh oooh come on Sri !You know it. ನಂಗೆ, ಈ ಹೊಸ idiot boxಗೆ ಶ್ರುತಿ ಸೇರಲ್ಲ”. Sri is my dear friend and she knows my idiosyncracies. And now she is my colleague too, or rather, I am her colleague and she better be nice to me. Well, I must tell you that she has. My problems with this new idiot box are of the nitty-gritty kind. “Sri, how do you print this page? How do you format this? How to move this back to the folder? How to do this and that and……..blah.. blah…blah. Sri will certainly twitch her nose. But she is a kind soul !
Sri heard my blog ignorance with a suffix – “Lead Kindly Light” Like a good friend, she ceremoniously initiated me to this new thing. “ಬರಹ ಅನ್ನೋದು ನಮ್ಮನಸ್ಗೆ ನಾವು ಹಿಡಿಯೋ ಕನ್ನಡಿ” reads one of her blogs. I’m hooked. What a wonderful bit of expression ! Then I read Surya, Hema, Rags…writings of all kinds… Sri’s philosophy on relationships…Surya’s confessions….Hema’s excitement on finding her “true love”….am jus getting inspired and Sri prompts me again. “ನಿಂಗೇನನ್ಸತ್ತೋ ಅದನ್ನ ಬರಿ. When we know that somebody will read our writing, we analyse our thoughts more closely. Just go ahead !” ಮೊನ್ನೆ ತಾನೆ ಗೌತಮ್ ಬೇರೆ blog start ಮಾಡು ಅಂತ ಹೇಳ್ಬಿಟ್ಟ. The write-o-holic in me gives in.
So here I am….. a blogger….finally……sharing my thoughts with you all as I enjoy my journey on the sands of time in my little musical caravan…called Life !!
