ء says…

Hamza says… I don’t know what to say anymore!!???!

Seriously!

To start with, Noor and I had a serious argument about how one should run a Blog.

I was being the usual idealist I am, saying that my blog has to be about worthwhile stuff and not just the random happenings of my everyday life. Ali Noor, while not rejecting my idea, suggested that I go and read different blogs on the net. I had done that way before Noor had even considered starting a blog, and knew that, apart from some serious writers, most of the people usually write blogs for sharing self indulgences – read, lack of discipline and lack of purpose… and all that crap!

On reaching the verge of serious conflict, I decided that I am not going to publish any blog until I have thought it through in my head. Meanwhile Ali Noor went on and launched his blog himself, without me launching mine alongside (which was the initial plan).

So don’t think ‘ke chota bhai baray ki copy kar raha hai! ’. As always, I am taking advantage of his mistakes and being the smarter one in following suit

But then, guess what?

I did think it through. And I did get many ideas in my head. For starters I started posting news items which I read, onto my Facebook profile. In fact I went crazy with the posting to the extent that my friends and cousins started looking at me with doubt that ‘what the hell is this guy up to??’

But my intentions were honest … I do believe … and I honestly think that, in these times, a lot needs to be said, responsibly and purposefully …

With that intention I started writing my first piece for the blog … and yesterday when I finished, I realized I had written a 4000 word long pamphlet!!!

Who the hell would read that?? Even I got tired (if not bored) halfway into it.

I have usually been very comfortable with my writing and I felt that this too would be a piece of cake … little did I know that I will have to spend three sleepless nights in my attempt to be purposeful. And by the end of it I wrote something that only some my close friends would read, and that too as a consolation for my effort!

Not that I am bad writer (I am quite vain by the way), but today, as I write this first blog entry, I am humbled with the realization that there is a long long way to go. Secondly, I submit that Noor was right … in fact I love the freedom these blogs give – I can write without feeling accountable towards a third person.

I will be writing the purposeful stuff as well. In fact I will write much more of that than random ramblings, but why limit myself??

This is an open space… so let’s breathe freely!!

Muahs and Coochies,

Hamza