Give up?

Someone somewhere once started being active on their blogs. It became a social convention to do so. To post every few days. To write lengthy posts. To fill the post with high quality pictures. Conventions not all of us can follow. Or want to.

I have been having a tough time trying to get back to my blog and updating something. More often than not I have thought, Will this blog suffer the same fate as my last one? Then I realized something. I had been an idiot to shut down my last blog all along.

I sat down and gathered my thoughts. What made me shut down my last blog? I came up with a few reasons:-

1. Few or no posts over a long period of time.
2. Few followers and views over its entire existence (of a mere 1 year perhaps)
3. People saying that my posts cant be related to.
4. Some other reasons I cant recall right now.

I looked at all these reasons, from my own perspective. That is when I saw the light. I have been craving social acceptance all along. I am not trying to say that I am anti-social. But writing has never been about social acceptance. Definitely not my writing. It has always been about saying what I feel the need to say in the way I like to say it. To grow as a writer, I want to be strong and persistent. Not molded and cast into what the world wants to read.

I will take my time to write. I will take my subjects and write about them. This I say to all my fellow writers and my current readers. My deepest apologies if I have let you down. Cause when it comes to writing, my one and only passion, the first and foremost thing to me is not to let myself down.

And I wont.

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