The reason for this blog. :P
I remember when I was a kid I had this thing about reading books. I thought that anything without any visual representations was a bore to read. I then felt that reading a book of any kind as a chore that I’d rather not do.
The funny thing about it is that these days I have collected about 500 books or so. In the beginning I was only interested with Fantasy books such as the series known as “Xanth Series” (Author: Piers Anthony). After a while though I started collecting other genres like science fiction, horror and Spy thrillers.
Most of my books though are of fantasy, books about dragons, mages, knights and gods. After reading most of my books three or four times already (some of my favorites I have read more than ten times since I bought It that I had to buy a new copy since all the pages were worn down because of my rereading it), though some of them I’ve only read once.
These days though I’ve started collecting books which are collections of short essays on philosophy and life in general. I’ve started reading some essays by Emerson and as well as those of Bacon. It was very interesting to see just how much the English language has changed in a couple hundred years. I also saw the subtle poetry of writing. In reading those authors essays I realized how beautiful words are.
Because of this realization I found myself writing about everything that I was interested in. Another reason I write is probably because I am a bit narcissistic. I love the idea that I can change another person’s views simply because of something I wrote. In writing I want to leave a small mark in people who I have never met personally, and yet know a part of me, of my mind because they have read something that I have created.
I know that there are more reasons why I have take up writing but these are the most important one to me. Anyway why did you guys start your blogs? Is it because of the same reasons or are your reasons entirely different from mine? Feel free to comment i would love to hear your opinions.