Century

This is my one hundredth post. Finally the elusive century is here.

For four years, I averaged one post each month. I was almost absent from this space in 2010. This year, 2011, has been my most prolific year blogging. I should credit that largely to my decision to move to Patna, where, in spite of hectic schedules at work, I can use most of my spare time reading and writing. I am discovering that being taken care of can be empowering too!

I started blogging when I was in New York. Subsequently, I lived in Delhi, Pune, and have been living in Patna for the last three months. It has been a long journey. And I know this journey will continue to destinations that are, as yet, not clear to me.

I started blogging very apprehensively. I was unsure of how much to express on a public forum. When I revert to my initial posts today, I find them a little hazy and unspecific. Over the hundred posts, I have become more direct and forthcoming with my expressions.

For a very long time, I limited my posts to text only. You could say that I liked (and still like) the Google style minimalist philosophy on websites. But slowly, I moved to pictures. They made the space more attractive.

Talking about Google, I must digress a little from the topic here and add that in the last four years, my admiration for the company and its founders has grown. I am a huge admirer of the company, its code of conduct “Don’t be evil”, its founders and the business model. I sometimes regret not specializing in web data mining, for Google is one company I would have dearly loved to work for. Apple is another. I’ll write more on this, may be some time later.

These days, at any given point, I have at least two or three drafts in waiting. But I wanted my hundredth post to be exclusive. It has been an interesting journey of expression, self discovery, learning and connecting. I am now fairly sure that I will not abandon writing (blogging), wherever I am, and whatever I am doing. For, I now take time out for writing in the middle of working through practically all holidays and personal tribulations.

When lives are short and roads are long, a century does tell you at least this – that you have endured.