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“By getting your thoughts down on paper in an undirected manner, you catch glimpses of yourself” – Richard Peck in Remembering the good times. Is that the right way of quoting other people’s intellectual property? Perhaps not. Blogging, as I understand it, is about not having a Quality team breathing down your neck and dissecting your flaws. A moron [yes, I have every right to call him that] told me that everything from the most negative to the most positive, the most startling to the most appealing things exist in the world. I guess I’ve not been able to put it across right – he meant that anything can happen and we need not be surprised at it. By God, he is right, but I’ve never made my peace with it. Things still surprise me, and is that such a bad thing? So much for making the world interesting! There are things that pick me up when I am feeling ‘Life is a labyrinth of dark shadows’ – quoth – who do you think?? Me! Okay, Narcissism all the way . . . Really, Almighty, when I felt I

So much has happened since my first post on this site. That was way back in 2008, when typing was a fantasy – I was proud of my ability to type fast enough, but I could still hold a pen, back then. It is amazing how a lot of us have changed. I, for one, cannot write faster than I type now. In fact, I hardly use my dexterity of the opposable thumb, except for hitting the spacebar. And while my handwriting has never been something to be proud of, it offends me that writing, as we still call it, holds less charm in the pencil or ink form as opposed to the ‘QWERTY’ form. It almost goes without saying. My job consists of the so-called ‘writing’ but only in the typed form, where my speed sometimes makes me think of the pitter patter of rain. I wish that were real! There, I tried to italicize a word and it doesn’t look very different from the rest of the script. And incidentally, those of you who’re wondering why I chose this font, just look at the beauty of the deliciously looped letter