A New Beginning…
And hopefully the last one, when it comes to starting yet another new blog on yet another platform but giving up on it in a few days after a few haphazardlly put-together blog posts.
I have rambled on Wordpress, Blogger and even Facebook notes. But none of them really got me hooked to write. Of course, I cannot just blame the platforms. Actually, I shouldn’t be blaming those platforms at all. It’s me, who has a classic case of ADHD when it comes to writing in general, and blogging in particular. I start a new blog with passion and in two months, I’d have forgotten about the whole thing.
It’s especially disappointing considering that I always wants to write and write. I revere the art of putting down the thoughts on paper and envy those who do it consisently, producing writings worth reading and pondering upon. Currently, I am highly into books on adventure writing, actually mostly into books on mountains and the people who had the good fortune (or misfortune in some cases) to be amongst high places. Also, I have just started reading the great Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.
Both the aforementioned genres convey the power of the written word and it’s ability to rouse intense passions in the reader towards the subject of the writing (more so in the case of mountain writing, but more on that, another time) and also call upon the reader to reevaluate his life, which is the case with Meditations, a 2000 years old treatise on the philosophy of Stoicism written by the Roman Emperor during the nights in his tent in the battlegrounds at the fringes of the empire.
As for the intense passions, Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air bought kindled a fire in me that turned into a burning desire to read more about the great mountain ranges of the world, learn about their geology, the culture geography, the people living amongst them and the people from far-away lands visiting them, some to pay their respect at the base camps and some to brave the challenges thrown at them and reach the summit, only to spend a few moments to look down upon the rest of the world and then rush down.
Besides trying to stoke intense passions and burning desires in you, the reader, this blog should also give me some solace from the conflicting emotions and feelings that overwork the neural networks in my head, as I have a chance to vent out to the world. Therefore, I set out to chart a writing path on Medium. A serial reader to a serial writer, I hope to become. Wish me look so that I shall ramble on till I die.
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