Engwar

Who are you?!

I started my first blog in February 2004, it was called gnulog.blogspot.com and I quickly got addicted to writing. The problem with words is that the reader can interpret things you say in billion different ways. This also vary according to the mood the reader, in that particular moment. Many months later, when the blog got somewhat know within my social circle all hell started to break loose. “Oh, I recently saw your blog, what on earth are you writing?!”, “I didn’t knew you had blah blah type of view about blah blah … you must be like a [psychopath/mentally ill/weirdo/disturbed, take your pick] to write that shit”. Although I don’t recall them word to word, feedback was not very different. After sometime I went anonymous, got a pseudonym and started writing. So my main blog was gathering rust. Then there was yet another set of people who read your archives and try to make conclusions about yourself. Views you had on a particular thing 10 months ago might not be the same right now. So I started getting “you have said like this in the past and now you’re telling this, ha! double standards” sort of comments.

Then I migrated to wordpress and started to blog under chintana.wordpress.com. By this time I had about 5 - 6 different blogs where I wrote with various pseudonyms. I imported my blogger archives to wordpress and continued to blog under my real name. When I felt the need to write about whatever that comes to my mind I would resort to do that anonymously. After some time, for a reason that I cannot recall I decided to get rid of the wordpress blog. Although I blogged anonymously I thought I should write with my real name also and then got trevet.blogspot.com. I’ve completely forgotten the time period I had this.

Anonymous blogging does have the freedom of writing whatever you want and not be associated with a gross misinterpretation from some dolt later. You could write your opinions about terrorism, human trafficking, donkey porn etc… It doesn’t matter. People don’t know who is at the other end. The moment people know who’s writing, they stupidly and incorrectly starts to form your character by stuff you write. I’ve been bitten by this numerous times. Freedom to write whatever I wish without getting it associated to how I am in real life, is too much to ask, apparently. This is why I’ve been writing anonymously and getting rid of all the archives on my previous blogs. Now, I don’t have an anonymous blog, don’t plan to get one either.

After a similar confrontation recently, it made me realize that these compulsive judgemental cretins are not worth bothering about.

Posted in Uncategorized, life · September 24th, 2008 · Comments (0)