happy 2009 and an ode to the readers of this blog

well this is my first post in this new year. This year it will be two years since i first started blogging. I dont know how many people read my blog, but those who do happy new year to all of you out there. People who i probably will never meet but who are connected to me through this blog.   I find such connections fascinating to say the least. I would like to imagine an average 25 year old person  way back in 1950. How many people he/she would be connected to? your family, people at your place of worship, your neighbours, your workplace, your school (if you go to one), college was a dream prospect back then for a family with average means.  Cut to 2009 and you meet people from all walks of life. I for one, who is an average 24 year old guy, have met people, who i am still in touch with, at school, college, tuitions during middle school, tuitions during high school, coaching classes for entrance examination to college, college, college parties, other college parties, dads business associates, distant cousins in foreign lands, online networking forums with dedicated theme, online general purpose social networking forums, graduate school, people who read my blog and so forth.

These different people that i have met during the course of my life, have left a distinctive impression on me. And most fascinating thing about meeting so many people is something like a classmate of mine went to college with a present associate of mine, or bumping into somebody you met years ago seven seas apart years ago, or calling up somebody you havent met for better part of a decade and then getting to meet them or when your childhood buddy whom you havent met for more than 15 years decides to get married and calls you/or email you and so forth. Its like if you are a pin in this vast sea of pins and the world is like a cardboard on which all these pins are placed and when you connect these pins with a thread; a thread representing a connection and each connection representing a color, you will get such vibrant patterns. These patterns define and individuals life. The people you meet, the people you connect to leaves a distinctive influence on who you are. You are a sum total of colors of all these connections. The more the connections, the more the colors and more complete you are. 

I am very happy to have one more color to my being. My connection to those who read this blog. I am not sure if i will meet any one of you at any point in my life. We may or may not bump into each other as complete strangers, sit right next to each other in a movie theater, be related to one another without knowing that this is the person whose this article i liked and so forth, but we have a connection. A connection which at a very basic level connects our thoughts. To be very honest i write for my self. I am not a professional blogger who clocks cpl of dozen articles every month, or the sorts who makes money out of it by promoting commerical products on his/her blog (I may become that at some point in distant future but not now),  nor my pieces are always pleasing to the eye. I write what i feel should be written. What i feel to be important either to myself or to people who at some level think like me. On an average i would write an article every month or two or even less but i write for i love writing and i thank those who read what i write and give comments whether constructive or criticizing.