Back to the future

Circa 2003:
Once upon a time, baby coffee beans used to blog with a passion. People from far and near kingdoms all came and poured adulations. Well, not adulations exactly, but a cloe-knit group of friends was formed, which comprised of people of all shapes and sizes, and we had a blast. But, as is with all happy things, this too came to an end. Through a series of incidents, coffee beans realised that the virtual world has slowly masked the real world, and threatening to convert coffee beans into a self proclaimed geekoid. (a term which is a product of coffee beans's twisted mind). Saddened by this realisation, coffee beans bid adiue to the virtual world and slowly drifted apart which incidently was her namesake! Instead, coffee beans decided to delve into the big bad world of reality, and face her demons head on. Of course, this was meant as a short break, a haitus, an incubation period... a Sabbatical...

What a laugh! Just like LIFE itself, coffee beans got herself busy with other things and forgot what used to be a wonderland. With each coming day, coffee beans strove to drive herself harder, and faster to keep pace. Coffee beans travelled far and wide and attempted to gain the ephemeral worldy wisdom. The sad but inescapable fate met with her too... She became a part of the rat - race. With no escape chute. Pressed against the glass walls of the cage she had built herself, she searched and searched and begged and begged for mercy. For the mill to stop, to let her get off it, even for a short time. Oh no, coffee beans was not miserable. Far from it. She had a comfortable life, lots of love and affection, lots of people to hang on to her each word. But, yet something was missing. It was as some inexplicable element, some unnamed part of her was missing, and she was fast losing touch.

And then, something runs past coffee beans's eyes on yet another tiresome day....

A blog...by this someone...made coffee beans laugh till she wept. Then, another one...and another one....

Coffee beans stares at the cieling and asks heself " was this is it?" The flush of blogging , the euphoria that fills you each time you sit in front of the keyboard and words just come pouring out, and leaves you with a strangely purged feeling???

People have different reasons to blog, some to keep in touch, some to fulfill their childhood fantasy of becoming a writer, whatever it is, I am sure it works for them. And its here to stay, might even replace the conventional journalism, what with the blogdom bursting at its seams, and bloggers pouring into the conventional space. Guess there's only one thing to do now...

Yeah, you guessed it right.

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