To Blog Or Not To Blog....THAT IS THE QUESTION!!

Sometime back, I have been interviewed by a HR girl of a renowned software company. Being an experienced guy, I was presuming that I would be posed question about location preference, package etc. But, she asked me about my hobbies. “Yes….hobbies…”!! I was dumb struck for a moment as generally freshers would be posed such questions.

I said “Math, body building and blogging”! She forgot the first two and started to cling on this “blogging”. And then I was flooded with questions on blogging. “Why did you feel the need to blog? Why don’t you just write a diary?” she asked. I was a bit baffled for two reasons. One, she was really pretty (take my word guys), and my eyes stuck to hers; second, this was something I hadn’t thought about myself. I started blogging some five years ago, but I never ever got the thought of why I should start. Blogging just happened, it did not occur to me, that I have to sit and think about it, weigh the pros and cons, and then decide.

Of course, I always loved writing a diary too. It has a personal touch to it, as it is handwritten. Perhaps I wrote a “full fledged “diary up to 21 years. Later, I felt that now it is not really an appropriate time to write, I can surely say, because college is when the most exciting things happen. Mine was a typical roller coaster ride, and every event in itself could be made into a mega-serial. So what was the problem? Big big problem! What if this diary gets into the hands of wrong people ? How can they understand the situation or circumstance, and what I was thinking at that point when I jotted something down? Honestly, I don’t even mind that, but somehow or other, my diary-writing days came to a sad end. May be if any director had seen it, those pages have chance of converting them into a multi-starrer movie.

The above 2 paragraphs condensed into a couple of lines was what I told to that HR girl. She was impressed. Although the technical round was a bit challenging, yet the HR girl was impressed, and that made me happy. So, the bottom line is I am thinking, is it about blogging or is it about HR girl ?