Random Talk : Update 4

Since I don’t really have a witty statement to begin this post with I’ll just get into it.

First off, to the regular readers of my blog I want to thank you. You are some of the most amazing people in the word. You may be wondering why I am thanking you out of nowhere. This is because this blog hit 10,000 views. I know that that is not much, but I am happy that I was able to reach that milestone. When I started this out I didn’t even think my work would be worth 1000 people, let alone 10,000. But that’s what makes this milestone so special.

Moving on to more serious topics, I want to discuss certain things, which I am sure that most of you are going to remain silent on. Not because it is controversial because while 10,000 of you have read my blog, only seventy five of you have commented which is not a lot.

But I am not complaining. Partly because I am happy that people are reading, and also partly because, I know many people don’t have that big of an attention span to read through the whole thing and comment. Reading in general has become really low these days, and I am not sure it is working in my favor.

I am and always have been a reader first. Reading has, and always will be, my first love. Writing, drawing and anything else that I may do come only after it. But that doesn’t mean that everybody loves reading. In general, as we move forward in time, as we develop new technology every day we are flooded with so much information. As a species our attention span has deteriorated like… something that deteriorates rapidly.

Ignoring my poor attempt at a comparison, what I am trying to say is that, this decrease in attention span has resulted in us missing so many things because it required more effort and a longer attention span longer than two minutes. I guess blogs are falling into that category nowadays. Bloggers and blog readers are a niche community. There are a lot of people out there, but there is no way for us to interact, even in this amazing world of connectivity. There is so much information that we have no way to sift through them all to get to something.

Sorry, went on a philosophical ramble there for a moment. My point is that, looking at the stats of my blog and my website, I find that there are a few changes that need to be done. For those of you who don’t know who I am or what I do, I am a college student. I started my first year of college two weeks back and my time table is pretty darn full.

I am also interning in a magazine, and I am planning for a dual degree. Not sure about where that will lead, but we will see. This means that my one post a day schedule has taken a beating. I find myself praying to my muse and coming out empty handed.

I was discussing this with my parents, and I was telling them how I feel like my posts are becoming repetitive. I don’t know if that is true, because I get very little to no comments on any of my posts. If anybody has any comments in that please let me know.

Change is a powerful word. The only thing that never changes is change. I have been ruminating on certain things and I am looking at doing some changes to my workflow. As a college student I have responsibilities towards my college. As a correspondent I have responsibilities towards my magazine. As a son I have responsibilities towards my family. But, before all of those responsibilities, I have one towards myself.

I need to enjoy what I write. What I do is creative at its base and I have realized over the past two weeks that you cannot force creativity. It takes me an hour to write a review, to edit it and post it on my website or blog. But what I realized it that I am just calculating the time that I do actual physical work. Before I put my fingers to the keyboard there is hours and hours of preparation which I don’t even realize I am doing.

I was able to keep up schedule of one post a day during my holidays because when I came and started tying, I had already done the legwork in terms of what the post is going to be about and what it is going to contain. But, now, when I come home from college and try to start typing I don’t get the flow so that I can write what I want to.

As my schedule changes, I must also change my routine. I can’t make the promise that I will post one article a day anymore. While it hurts me to say that, it is just to make sure that the articles that I do post in one week are done really well. This has been an awesome run I do believe that I have to change directions.

There is change coming this way, and I hope that you will lend me your support there. Until next time;

Peace!!!