Muqaddimah.... The Beginning...
Finally I decided to blog.... Why you may ask? Well, I must say that I was introduced to this world of blogging by my friends at my workplace.....
At first, I thought it was almost sacrilege that someone would publish their innermost thoughts and feelings on the Net. Its like writing a diary of your personal thought and let other people read it. I mean wouldn't you go bonkers if your sister or brother were to have read up your diary? (The last time I wrote in a "real diary" was about 14 years ago! Those were the days!).
I mean my diary was a private notebook which stored private thoughts of what happened to me on a daily basis. Its a place where I stored my feelings, frustrations, anger, dreams, ambitions and innermost thoughts. Its where I can "let go" and just write anything I want without other people knowing about it. And thats what I thought about blogging, initially.....
When I heard about it, I thought about these people surely wanted cheap publicity and attention.... but after looking at several blogs set up by my friends as well as on the Net, I now know that blogging is not just an online diary. Its more than that.... its a medium of expression... expressions of the human mind....
And so I said to myself, maybe I should start writing again like I did with my trusted diary last time... To start expressing myself again, my thoughts of what is going on around me and the world at large. To perhaps re-discover myself, what I seek from this temporal life. But in doing so, I don't think I can just "let go". In this medium, I suppose people may read my thoughts. So there has to be some self-restraint and mindfullness. Which is why I decided to name my blog as it is...
Sadness in Qana, Lebanon...
