Webties Address (Pun intended ;)

Yoo Hoo!

I finally succeeded in establishing my web ties! "Yeah yeah" you may say, " just like countless others - very original aren't you"! Before you target your derision or indifference to my humble conquest, I have to point out - I did have to battle out forces of nature to do this. Those forces being intrinsic of course - the primary one, the all-pervasive INDOLENCE. Secondarily, the desire to keep my private thoughts, well private. But in most of us there is the innate showman/woman who rallies forth "Cogito ergo sum"- I think therefore I am - and God forbid! humankind miss out on the wonderful thoughts that incubate in and eventually ferment out from this wonderful brain of mine. Guilty as charged of harboring these delusions of grandeur! The banality and depravity of my thoughts do become apparent to me from time to time (mostly from external sources) - some realism is left intact, thankfully!.

Being trained in scientific writing (which has no resemblance whatsoever to the science of writing), I am forced to follow a framework that had been instilled with great patience by my advisors (this being a euphemism for severe criticism and innumerable drafts). So now that I have established a "need" for this excercise, it is but natural that I progress (I use the term loosely here) to the review of literature....... which would involve ... i think other blogs.

The careful researcher that I am (hold that laugh!), I went ahead and surreptiously read through the verbose and diverse thoughts of my fellow bloggers. Most of them had either led/or were leading interesting lives, had solutions to world problems in hand (to think it would have remained undisclosed but not for blogs - such travesty I say!) or had closely examined and documented the intricacies of daily living. Now, my megalomania notwithstanding, I have been emphatically led to believe (by who else? - the overbearing external sources) that I have not developed the faculties for any of these. So this leaves me with the option of doing one thing that I probably do best - randomly throw out snippets of musings, anecdotes, trivia which inhabit the crowded and decrepit world of my mind and hope that some higher, more intelligent being would make sense of it. Maybe the data would feed into the equation which calculates the answer to life's biggest question (my ode to HHGTTG) or it may be that outlier that would skew the results further - who knows? As we say in the hinterland - ka jaani (what do I know)? There is deeper version of this statement too - ka jaani ka ? (what do I know what I do not know)

Mull over it .....or not.... :)