It all started with Youth Curry!

Three months back in college, for my department's symposium, we had the popular JAM editor, Rashmi Bansal coming over as a guest speaker for infotainment. Amidst technical gyan, paper presentations, tech-quizes, robotics workshops and all other techy techy stuff, an hour on blogging by rashmi bansal sounded like a heavenly pleasure! For one, i was happy to treat my ears with something totally "non-tech" and two, i am a blog addict!
Well, i thought i was a blog addict and had the bloggers disease generally known as "blogmania" until this particular day. It was pretty disheartening by all means. After her interesting discourse, she wanted to see a few of our blogs. Many showed, she commented, questioned and was answered. I didnt intend to show mine... but thanks to the audience! Shouted Poori so loudly that i didnt have a choice but to walk up the dice and show her my fateful blog. My last post that time was, A thousand splendid suns.
"Book review is it", she asked
"Not a review, just a personal write-up.", i answered.
she scrolled a bit... i dont think she liked my blog.
Anyway, she went on, "3rd jan, 2008, your last update? you dont blog regularly?"
"I dont get time in college actually. I generally blog during holidays."
"Then what are you so busy with?", she asked with a teasing smile which almost conveyed, boyfriend, is it?
I almost wanted to blare out that it wasnt what she was thinking but one look at my HOD and i kept quite.
"College life, pretty hectic." thats all i could say.
"You know what, you dont have to blog, if you dont want to. Its totally your choice. But if you choose to blog, then you must update regularly."
I wanted to shout, "I love blogging... its just the time that i dont have and also internet!!!" But how could I with HOD sitting in the first row. So i silently walked down, but my mind was still revolting.
Till now, those words ring in my head and i feel as if someone is trying to push a dagger through my thought hub each time i recall THAT DAY. I feel helpless and hopeless! Such a thing happened today also. But today is different from other days. I had time today. So, i quitely sat down and looked through, Youth Curry (Rashmi's blog). Read articles, comments, and then the blogroll... went on and on... It was like an eye opener. I saw a variety of blogs by writers, analysts, economists, professionals and ametuers, students and elders... and a spectrum of topics so beautifully and effectively portrayed!
And finally i learnt my lesson, one thing that each of the bloggers had in common was that they updated pretty regularly. And then i realised how dumb i was to veil my discrepancies with a the most easy excuse called TIME. If all such bigshots with a high yielding career and a family life can find time to blog, then where do i stand? Oh my god!!! i dont even want to think about it.
Here are a few links to a few nice ones i visited today...

Youth Curry, http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/
The renegade of junk, http://curiousgawker.blogspot.com/
Domain Maximus, http://sidin.blogspot.com/
A time to reflect, http://www.indsight.org/blog/
and ofcourse... you can link and link and unravel a lot many purposeful insightful blogs.