The Centenary Post

Ahh!! Finally, it is the 100th! Awesome feeling! I can't believe it myself. I am not known to hang in there to anything for so long. And when I started writing, I never knew there would be a day in my life, when I'll write the centenary post of my blog. But somehow, here I am, after more than 13 months from the day I first wrote on the blog, still pretty active in the bloggers' world.

Frankly speaking, I started blogging to get rid of the LAN gaming addiction. Counter Strike was killing me. All I thought was about the CS maps, guns, strategies etc. and was drifting away from the real world. Then one day, I gave it a long thought and decided that it was enough. I quit CS. But then what to do next? How to kill spare time? Reading and writing was my childhood hobby but it got neglected after school days. Then came a wild idea! Why not create a blog and start writing in such a way, that the whole world can read it? And that’s how my blog was born.

The feeling you get when you see your name flashing in the Google results with some meaningful information attached to it is awesome. I realized this when I first saw it for myself. Another great feeling is when some stranger, after arriving at your blog and reading it, leaves a word of appreciation as a comment. It seems that a bond has been created between me and that stranger through that comment. And now, I have one more person in the world, who cares for what I write. I feel as if now I have transformed from 'a nobody' to 'a somebody'.

I know its been a long and boring post with relatively no useful information what so ever, but I cannot wind it up without giving a vote of thanks to a few people, who read whatever I wrote, and occasionally advised me how to improve myself. Their each criticism brought a new zeal in me, to deliver better than the previous effort. Their every appreciation worked as an inspiration for me. Thank You Vaibhav Jain Sir, Aishwarya Gupta, Sudhir Kumar, Divyanshu Tripathi, Pallavi Singh, Taniya Garg, Anand Advani, Utkarsh Mishra, Piyush Yadav & Mudit Singh. I hope my tryst with pen lasts for some more wonderful moments and you are all there to share them with me. Thank You!!

Half Centenary Post

This post is dedicated to Vaibhav Jain Sir.

And LOL !! Finally my blog has 50 posts. Its a great feeling. I never thought that the past time which I am taking up to kill spare time after I quit LAN Gaming will become a daily routine for me. Its been precisely three months and six days since I created my blog. Knowing practically nothing about it, Vaibhav sir helped me to know the basics of creating and maintaining the blog.

And there I was, on the doorstep of a new world. "The World Of Bloggers". For the first time, I saw my name in the search results of Google. Awesome feeling !! If felt great to be a part of the huge Internet. Within no time, the hobby became an obsession. The day I didnot write something, I felt as if a part of mine was incomplete.

A fresh and new Pratyush was born breaking the shackles of the old one. A new Pratyush... who can think, feel, observe, discuss and write. To observe something very closely and pen it down in your own style is a difficult job. I tried, failed. Again tried, failed until succeeded to draw the attention of atleast some people.

And changes began to happen. People started appreciating the work. Some suggested their view point. Some criticized mine. Some were impressed. And there I was, once desperately trying to find something meaningful in life, which I got in the form of my blog.

I can remember countless lectures of PU and MGO, trying to think and write on something, in which otherwise I would have fallen asleep as those lectures were damn boring. I know it sounds weird and unethical not to listen to the teacher in the lectures but the ground reality is that one cannot understand a word even if one try to. So, better do some constructive work.

Its been more than three months since its inception, but it feels as if it was yesterday. Every new post, article, poem, song, story, fact, personal experience rejuvenates my will to write more. I really consider myself successful if I make atleast one soul on this earth moved by my writing.

The time was not always good. A period came when I thought of quitting as I was getting no good response. And at that time one person stood by me and told me that whether or not anyone reads what I write, he will always be there to guide me, support me, appreciate me, criticize me, and will do anything what it takes to help me continue to pursue my passion. That person is Vaibhav Sir. Thank you sir for always be there with me.

And now I wish to take my passion to a greater and tougher level. Surely in the future, I will try to write and publish a book. The theme of the book will be related to my personal experiences. Lets see what is in store for me and my passion in future.