Sometimes a blog is just what a blog is. The recording of a moment, a sudden attempt to capture what is by nature ephemeral, to grasp at the truth as though it can be held back as it slips through the sieve. Sometimes, a blog is just talking to yourself, catching something that made you smile, pouring out something that would make you burst otherwise, as is, half formed, half lived, half tested. For the heart is what it is.
Sometimes a blog is just a mirror of a moment, a discrete point in time, a small bubble that is the truth before it blends into the continuity of the stories of our lives we make for ourselves. Sometimes a blog is like the equivocation of the witches that lies like truth, throwing stardust into eyes that wait too eager to believe, as though it would happen to them, just like it happened to you or to me.
Sometimes a blog is about the silences more than the words, the gaps that gloss over truth, the little airbrushing to enhance reality that makes all the difference. Sometimes a blog is about making the little pieces of the puzzle fit, sawing, polishing, scraping the edges to make them meet, throwing away the sawdust making reality.
Sometimes a blog is a little germinating seed, a little shoot sent out tentatively into the night, to grow a single leaf in the morning. Sometimes a blog is a repository of hopes and dreams, a little by little putting together of building blocks towards roofs that were never built, pillars that never withstood the storms, repairs that were never made on time, resting grounds that were never found.
Sometimes a blog is just to come to it any way you like, taking any route, just as you please, starting from anywhere, to end anywhere, or to not start or end at all but to just keep going. Sometimes a blog is to feel the texture of what is passing, the rough and the smooth, about moving from moment to moment, connecting ourselves with ourselves, feeling the materiality of the passing of our lives, knowing this too shall pass and be replaced.
Sometimes a blog is just about chronicling this or that as though our lives mattered after all and made sense.
Blogging is about leaving little signposts to our future selves, shoring up against forgetting, protecting ourselves against remembering, planting little jokes, foreshadowing, leaving behind material for irony.
Sometimes a blog is about making an end to find the beginning.
Either you had no purpose
Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfilment.. . .
If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more
Than an order of words, the conscious occupation
Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.. . .
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make and end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.. . .
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.[Little Gidding, No. 4 of ‘Four Quartets,’ T.S. Eliot)
Featured image: From eleven-year-old Bottledworder
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Great Post. I really enjoy to reading this article.
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Thanks for sharing.
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Outpouring of thought and science can be cast through writing. We can describe the beauty of nature through painting pen.
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Why did you say “Sometimes a blog is about making an end to find the beginning.” I don’t understand, can u pls explain me about what you’ve said? thankyou 🙂
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a blog is a place where we can channel our desires or wishes to transmit our hobby or even a place to jot down something that we experience in life.
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a blog is a place to share information, surely apositive information, about the cuisine,culture,technology,science, religion and more, and I very much got good information from ablog.
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the blog is a tool that we can use for many purposes , pour writing , make an online shop and many others .
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Reblogged this on Voice Of Logic and commented:
THE TOTALITY OF BLOGGING, just love this
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I love the infamous passage by T.S. Eliot that made it into one of my recent stories. You have provided such a unique dimension to the lives of bloggers. I have, on many occasions, found myself thinking the very things that you have so eloquently stated.
Here’s to the journey of finding not the end, but the beginning – and creating the path that carries us towards enlightenment, growth, and inspiration. Thanks for sharing such beautiful and insightful thoughts and best wishes for an inspired day!
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This is really good! Thanks for capturing what a lot of us try to put into words. You’ve done it very nicely.
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Reblogged this on oshriradhekrishnabole.
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Always enjoy your musings. Thank you for sharing them
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Offering us one of T.S Eliot’s poems would already have been a treat. Your own words about what a blog is are of course much more modern. Yet both echo a similar sentiment: What is the purpose of writing or simply living?
I especially like the questions about beginning and end. When I write I always start with the ending. So I find this reflection very relevant in a personal way.
A great post as always.
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Just lovely to read this rhythmical piece. All of us who write because we love to, because we’re compelled to, understand.
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Nice post, thanks for sharing!
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Great definitions of blogging. It means different things to different people.
I enjoyed reading your writing as an 11 year old! It seems you were already an astute observer of our world! A start at blogging back then….
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Yes, wouldn’t it have been wonderful if there was social media then?
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Oh, I would never have left my room then. I would have filled posts with my shyness emboldened. 🙂
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About the best definition of blogging I’ve ever come across. Thank you.
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Yes yes yes I liked this post
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Love the post
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Very nice post. It is something I needed to read. I seem to struggle with what I want my blog to be that sometimes I forget what a blog is. A blog doesn’t need to be big and complicated. A blog doesn’t need to change the world or change our world. A blog can be simple, a blog can just be, can just exist. Thank for for this.
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So very, very beautiful! 😉
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Jesus wow. That’s a ton of profoundness for a Saturday morning.
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It’s my Sunday wee hours of the morning already so profundity is okay. 🙂
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Oh you non Americans 😀
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been there, done that! (I mean Sat morning :))
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