Scribbles...

Are Life -defining moments few? Or are there a lot? Sometimes I wonder about it. Sometimes it seems that there are too few of such moments when in reality you desperately need a few more. Or perhaps it is just that such moments do exist: lurking in the oblivion and waiting for You to bump into them. These are perplexing questions with indefinite answers.
So what ARE these Life-defining moments? Hmm... welll I guess like everything else in this world these are also relative. As for me, Life defining moments are those where you get a sneak peak into your very 'raw' self, or moments when you have a revelation, or a vision. It could be a moment of an accident, or it could be moment of serendipity. It might be an obvious observation, or it might be a subtle realisation. It might be a moment of weakness or even a moment of great inner strength. It could be heart-breaking; it could be heart-mending. It could change your life or it could merely help you get a push.Whatever it maybe it is there ever-present in the living of each day.
Maybe we are too busy going about life's daily duties to notice those moments of beauty that lay in the deep dark shadow....no wait why do they have to be in the shadow? Maybe they are not in the shadow...maybe they are right in front of us? Maybe they are so bright that we just mistake them for sun's rays and never take notice? Moments....hmm...that too life-defining...sounds very philosophical, mind-boggling to say the least. But in reality it is a simple thought. It gives you the power, inner power - spiritual or mental- to choose between things, or to make a change, or to start anew, to apologise, to thank, to gaze into the future, to reminisce the old and to accept reality. The source of this power is also you, and the optimists would like to believe that it may lead to your destiny. What I think of destiny is whole other story...and I will tell some other time. But for now let me explain what I mean by 'raw' self.
Your raw- self is the part of you that's most ancient. Not so much your 'soul', but perhaps a little bit of your 'id'. This self of yours is free of pretentions, and not shaped by material desires. It is the part of that you long to know....but the
living of life clouds this self of yours. This is not you, this is YOU. Socrates urged you to know that YOU! when he said 'know thyself'.
Well, I have rambled on and wrote meaningless words just to fill up the page.....the objective is not to preach despite what it seems. It is just a way of self-preservation perhaps. Saying what I want to say may open up new windows for me. Maybe if I am careful enough I could finally find some of my life defining moments and find the courage to walk through 'The Road Not Taken'.

The very first page

This is my very first blog. I have created this blog so that I will be motivated to write regularly. To say I am an aspiring writer would be an overstatement, but who's watching? So, this will be my own personal writing diary. If I were thirteen then I would have called it "My big book of writing!" Now that I am (a little)older I will call it "Keeping Track". Okay, so that is not the most ingenius title you have ever heard but for the time that's what it is going to be in essence- a blog to keep track of my (random and eccentric)thoughts and ocassionally to scribble down events and memories. I am hoping when I am 65 and struggling to get innovative ideas for my novels these 'memoirs' would help me get going. My blog is not intended to be literary although if I can develop the habit of writing regualarly (A habit all good writers must have), then I plan on changing the name of my blog to "Writing Away".

Here's a head's up on me.

I come from a country of six seasons. Or so it used to be. what with all the global warming and Greenhouse effect, the six seasons that have enchanted and enthralled our poets and writers for centuries have merged and mingled. In the due process, we now have a long, humid summer almost ten months long (or so it seems to me), and a very short and pleasant winter. My affinity is with winter,as I was born on the coldest night of the year, so do not trust my exagerrated horror stories about summer.

"Keeping Track" would be about the mundane things that happen in my life, so if you do not like it do not tell me I hadnt warned you.

I love reading: generally World Literature(20th century) and specifically Latin American. My favourite Latin American writer is Isabel Allende.

I am not a big fan of the classics, but my favourites include Charles Dickens and Louisa May Alcott (not sure if she's classic though). Favourite classic books are: 'Little Women' (duh), 'Pride and Prejudice' (bigger duh) and 'A Tale of Two Cities'(Didn't see that one coming , huh?).

I suppose that's all now....it was quite fun...i do make an intention to be regular in my blogs, but dont worry it wont be to bother you, but rather to get me going.

Ciao.