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Why Have All Answers??

Someone asked me couple of vital questions after going through one of my recent blogs. The questions are all elementary for a serious blogger. What is the aim of my blog? Who is the target audience? Why will anyone be interested in my articles? What impact does writing blog have on me? How is this going to change anything? What is long term plan for the blog? What other channels can express similar views with greater impact? What is the effort vs return in writing articles? – oh my God…I never thought that a simple act of blogging can have so many questions at the back drop.

Now there are two issues about it. The first one, is may be, life is like that. Even an incident or a situation, which appears to be very simple, can have so many questions behind it. The very basic fact of my existence can be questioned, why to exist, why someone be interested in me, can my existence change anyone, what is the long term plan of my existence, and so on and so forth. Many incidences in life happen which do not have proper and justifying answers to many of these questions. I still try to find answers to the incidence of my first love, was it necessary? I try to find answer to the fact of my upbringing in a small town is Assam, was it justified? Likewise, if you also try to find answer to some very rudimentary questions of your life, I am sure, you will struggle for a satisfactory answer. Then, we all will stop thinking about those and attribute them to a factor called “destiny”.

The second issue is much more important. Is it necessary to have all answers pre-defined in life? Take a simple example of going for weekly provisions shopping. Being a hard core fish loving Bengali, if I start thinking all basic questions before getting that water fresh ‘Rohu’, like, why fish, what nutritional value I am going to get of it, what impact it will have on my digestive system and how it is going to affect my next day morning washroom action, what will be effort needed for preparing a delicious fish curry….then the very purpose of buying that dazzling fish is defeated.

Analytics will definitely like to differ with me. They will surely say, there should be a purpose of every action. If the purpose is not justified, the actions will not fetch desired result. All logical questions will follow, why, what, where, how and when. People with practical approach in life, will definitely analyze the action. I salute them.

But, emotional fools like me, will do many things without thinking for the outcomes. We will believe people blindly, we will depend on friends, we will shop for something which will not be utilized fully and of course, we will keep blogging. Our small, emotional steps will generate the sense of fulfillment in us and thus we will greet the great world in our own way.

Small steps, towards a great world !!

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  1. Parth@RKMSMarch 12, 2012 at 4:59 AM

    Once again great emotional output. Persons are there who likes question to ask and to answer too. But creativity is to satisfy our own need and it is not a why why analysis. keep on blogging and we are here to see it and not to question.

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