Guilty blogging

why is it that people blog when they are supposed to be doing other things?


(firstly, lets apply all due caveats to such a generalised statement. It is quite clear that when i say "people" I actually mean "I", but seek to bring down the whole bunch with me).

Could be because that is when one is in front of the computer. But if we consider that most people possess a computer in their home, and that most computers are permanently connected tothe internet, and that of these computers most never really get switched off, then being inthe position to blog becomes no more of an effort requiring task than sitting on the bloody loo.

So lets rule that one out.

Could be because in today's day and age during most of our time we are supposed to be doing 'other thngs', and given that blogging is not remunerative (at least not for 99% of blogs, including this one, alas!) and, unless conditions allow it, doesn't even produce fame, glory or success with women. Hence, for the majority of us, blogging will never be considered 'a thing i ought to be doing'.

It oculd also be because blogging makes one feel good about himself, makes him or her feel part of a virtual community of unchartered intellectuals, free from the worldly constraints of paper-based publication. And our allegiance to this imagined community could be so strong as to make us deviate from the tasks that the 'real' (ugh!!) world imposes on us.

No idea, ultimately, as to why it is that peoiple blog when they are supposed to do other things. But that doesn't make much difference. They do. And, again, by 'they' i mean 'I'.

I blog when I'm supposed to be doing other things. This is guilty blogging. All of it.