Our
Blogs. Thinking about mine brings a smile to my face. Does yours bring too? I
was just thinking how they are an extension of us. Can we call them our second
homes? They say home is where heart is. And our blogs certainly have our
hearts, don’t they?
The
look of our house has to be like us, like people residing in it. Traditional
or bohemian, black & white themed or dashed with colours, or a mix of everything.
Remember, while decorating your house for that occasion where there would be guests
coming over, how you fretted over tiniest things that would matter. Where should
that plush looking carpet be placed? Where would that art piece look best?
Thinking. Arranging. Re-arranging. After all, you would have guests at your
place. They shall look around; they shall walk all over, look in the corners - the
decorations, the colours, the patterns, the wall pieces, everything. And you
want them to be perfect. May be if not perfect, atleast like you. The guests
should remember whom they visited. If they go and talk about it to others,
nothing like it.
Well, didn’t you feel similar while you were decorating your
blog? Didn’t you try many themes before finalizing the one? I have seen some beautiful wall hangings, colourful pictures, animations and even fish tanks on
the blog. Extension of the bloggers themselves, I guess?
Whenever
anything new happens in the house, be it an event - happy or sad, whether you’ve
brought a new television or whether you’ve given up an old bad habit, the family
and friends have to know about it. Isn’t that the case with our blogs too? They
are the first ones to listen to our achievements, bear our rants and share our
happiness. And then, the news spreads to family and friends – virtual but
equally strong like the real ones. They would come and praise your achievement,
they would come and share your sadness, they would congratulate you and they
would advise you. Just like your real friends and family.
We
like to keep the most prized possessions, our winning trophies in the most
visible place of the house for everybody to see and admire. And similarly, those lovely
award badges, those contests winning badges, the badges showing where we’ve been
published adorn our sidebars, visible for all.
Our
houses get cluttered. And then, we start the cleanliness drives. Creating drawers
for different things, putting things in their place, marking the lids of the
jars so that they are easily available next time you need them. Haven’t you donw the same for the blog? Labeling the posts, adding proper tags, linking to the
other similar posts and even creating pages for similar ones to be stacked
together. Homes, Blogs.
And
remember, when you have guests at your place? You clean the place well, you
announce their arrival to other members of the family, introduce the guest to your
family members. Isn’t that somewhat similar to what we do while having co-bloggers
as guests on our blog? Similar.
And
then you might roam around, admire others’ places, may be want that wall
hanging that is there in neighbour’s house on your wall too, but then, at the
end of the day, your own little space is the best. The best. Howsoever,
cluttered or empty it is. Your home does have your heart. So does your blog. Isn’t
it?
This
post is written as a part of April A to Z Challenge 2014 under Non-Themed category.
I am doing two posts for this Challenge and Themed posts can be found here.
