I've been trying to reinvent myself for some time now, and that somehow meant that all my old posts had to go. I've got them all in my Gmail account for those days in the future when I want to see what life was like back in the beginning of the 21st century. But they won't be coming up here again. I just realized that to break the funk I've sunk so deeply into, I needed to do something drastic. And this is part of it. All those old posts were just weighing me down and holding me back in a manner I just can't explain. Besides, my blogging had slowly turned from something I did purely for my pleasure into something where every post began with an apology for not posting more regularly. Its funny actually. You start blogging for yourself, because you like writing. Then people start coming to your blog, start commenting, and slowly the reason you blog begins to change. You begin to blog for the people who turn up to read. Not that there's anything wrong in that. Its just that I've realized that I write my best when I write for myself.
What made me do it? Well, I think Angie's partly responsible. Her first post on the new face of her old blog set me thinking. Especially this line that goes "..someday you will take pride in who you really are, and not gather your identity by who's reading you and who's not." Go read the whole thing if you want to make sense of it, a lot of it echoes my feelings exactly and she's put it in words beautifully.
Now, I think I should set some guidelines for my posts, something that should give a structure to everything I post here and a few do's and don'ts. I think I'll probably keep adding to this list as I come upon more things I love, hate or want to include.
1) Proper Capitalization. Which means no more "i went to the shop". It'll always be "I went to the shop".
2) I hate sms language. Words like 'wen', 'y', 'frenzz', 'thru', 'hav', 'cmon', 'der', 'gettin', 'luv' etc. will never appear in these hallowed pages except as part of a direct quote or maybe to be ranted against when I feel like.
3) No more hasty posts. Every post should be debugged ;) thoroughly and reflected upon, before it appears on the blog.
4) No joining sentences together with "......" unless it actually adds something to the flavor. Great big grazing herds of full stops were a common sight in most of my old posts. They become extinct, or at least 'greatly endangered' from today.
5) No more posts that look like Corinthian columns. The Enter key must be used once in a while to split the post into readable chunks a.k.a Paragraphs.
Well, that's all I can think of, now. But this list will certainly grow.
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