Marking the Milestones

For the past few days, I had been counting the number of blogs that I had written so far under Two Minutes a Day with God (some have commented to me that it in fact, takes more than two minutes to read each of the blogs!), and with the last number, I had completed 200! That is, two centuries, and here is the first one of the next century, and I hope I would be able to continue batting without getting tired of thinking aloud, pouring out my own feelings and sentiments, echoing the sweet and sour moorings of the world around me. It is no more a challenge to pour out what I feel openly and candidly.

But that is not the case with everyone who may wish to blog on the net! For some, the initial couple of blogs may even be traumatic and chaotic; on the one hand is the content, and on the other is the formatting, visual effects, and the stylistic elements. It may be more confusing to get all of these things going steadily and smoothly in the initial blogs. Here is a tip for the beginners : don't start the Blogger page and start keying in the content online; it would be better to go to the word processor and compose the matter slowly and carefully, and then copy the matter (in Windows Ctrl-C), and then paste it (Ctrl-V) on the blogger text box. This would guarantee that the content is taken good care of.

But what about the visuals, the photos and drawings? Where do I get these from? Easy! The internet contains any visual or picture that one might imagine; all that one needs to do is to go to the google or any other Search Engine, and type what sort of picture you need, and in a minute you have the picture. Choose the most appropriate and visually most appealing (not forgetting the file size and format; I prefer medium size and format almost always JPEG) picture and save it in My Pictures folder with a file name which is easy for me to remember! Once that is done, all that I have to do is to link the picture with the text and upload it. In a minute, it is done.

Blogs are not meant to be literary pieces, sometimes they may turn out to be, and in which case, it is only accidental. They are pages of my digital diary; they may contain errors in spelling, in grammar, in quotations, but do these matter much? If I become a very popular figure, whom thousands of men and women may follow, then I should be very careful about what I am writing, for in such a situation, I can be sure to be torn apart by the readers-viewers for even a wrong comma, or a period. But for most of us, who use blogs for self-expression, anything can be allowed, provided it remains largely personal.

There is no better reading material for me, when I am down, or when the spirit is low, than to go back to the blogs of my earlier days. Often I have felt that most of the things I had written months back, come back alive to me, and I find it quite refreshing to go back to them again. Sometimes the writings appear new to me, and I cannot even imagine that I had written it months ago. The reason for this is simple : once the feeling is poured out, it becomes the property of the public, and not any more mine, and that is the reason why they appear to me new and fresh, when I read them after some months. After all, any wine which has been preserved for years and months will taste better for sure!