About The Author

As you know I have been trying to write a blog, so I opened my account to look at suggestions given by people (I got some of them on facebook), where I saw a section which said ‘about the author’ and I tried filling it, this is about me trying to fill the ‘about the author’ section.

So I thought “What should I write about”? the answer seemed simple I had to write about ‘I’ the person who I see in the mirror… but that was it , I was not able to write anything about me. If I were to write about some other person I just met once I would have been able to write essays about it, but when it was me I was not able to write anything.

So taking the same premise I thought others would be able to tell better about me then myself .So I decided to look at what others had to say about me I asked about it from friends and family members, the opinions varied a lot it was like they were talking about completely different people, but then this thought came to my mind “do I need others to define myself, am I incapable of defining myself without looking at it from outside is it really true that we scrutinize and try to understand others more than we try to understand and look at our own selves.”

I was asking way more questions then I was answering, what had started with a simple question of writing about myself had sprouted thousands of more questions, it was then I turned to the one that has the answers all the questions ‘GOOGLE Search’, this is what I searched for ‘who am I’. 490,000,000 is the number of results I got some of them included the writings of philosophers, various religious definitions, there is in fact a Jackie Chan movie with the name ‘who am I’,

It seemed like I found the question that gives birth to all philosophy.

The problem of defining ‘I’ or confirming the existence of I is not new. Many a great people have already spent their lives trying to define it. So there were too many definitions. The problem now was which definition I take and which do I leave.

Do I take Descartes definition but this guy had serious issues forget about writing about himself or understanding himself Descartes even doubted his existence and in the end was able to prove that he existed only by stating ‘I think therefore I am’(philosophers are weird!!!!).

Lets look at what god had to say about himself -‘I am what I am’ this was the response given by God when Moses asked his name (writing more than that about myself, now that would be blasphemy).

But then I thought “am I significant enough to be written about, after all I am just but a small piece in the grand scheme of things, another one in billions, after all lord Krishna said in gita ‘this life, our existence is just but as a blink of an eye’.

So the final conclusion stands as-About the author: author is not significant enough to be written about.

P.S: This still is not a blog.

THIB

Firstly let’s talk about the name. You must be wondering what kind of a name is THIB well it is perfectly logical THIB stands for ‘THIB Is Not a Blog’, and yes it is recursive and yes it is copy of GNU, and that is about the name

As the name says this is not a blog this is me asking you something.

But first a small story:

It is about me trying to write a blog and failing so miserably that I couldn’t even decide on a topic for it, it was like all the topics were already taken.

I started with trying to write something about philosophy, but then I read the book ‘story of philosophy’ which talks about the lives and works of famous philosophers and I thought “these people have done some serious work there “what good would be my blog compared to the works of these guys and that was the history about my first failed blog idea.

Next I thought about writing about love, (yes I know nothing about it but still I decided to give it a shot), well as soon as the thought came to my mind the thoughts of the great love stories written also came to my mind i.e. Romeo and Juliet, laila majnu etc. the result was the same the Recycle Bin.

Next I thought of writing about my life, this time I was really serious about completing it. All the conditions were in my favor firstly I had a topic to write on, secondly nobody had more knowledge about my life and nobody can write better about me then myself, but then I thought who would read about me, even I don’t want to talk about my life with myself why would anyone else like to read about it and this also went to the black hole of all my ‘BLOGS’- THE Recycle Bin.

And then there was a spur of ideas which came to my mind while driving from office to home everyday, the topics ranged from Bangalore traffic to autorikshaws drivers. Someday the topics would be more social like poverty in India to place of women in our society, the list goes endless with topics such as global warming, India becoming a superpower, women, the eggs (ande) which I eat, things which I want to do before dying (eating haldirams samosas is one of them amongst others), rajma chawal, if I write the complete list here then this would rather be a book.

To cut a long story short I was not able to decide on anything so I thought lets ask the people about the topic on which I should write or well should I even write( there already are millions of blogs on the net who needs another one).

Please do tell….