A game of questions and answers

A few questions (which were asked recently, not over social media, but directly however) require answering.

A) A good friend from college recently dropped in to Bangalore, and her first question was a rather animated 'WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN'?

Well, I have been around. Getting to grips with life. Settling down to a pattern (if you know me even remotely, you will know that I am a sucker for pattern, and similar unromantic terms like logic, sense and continuity. Even peace. Give peace a chance, eh?)... well, I have settled to a pattern now.

If you did not know, I got married about two years back. And married life has been exactly what I had expected it to be i.e. turbulent initially, what with two rather diffident people coming together... and then gradually steady, strong and loving. Love triumphed. And I was discussing with the better half a while back that what marriage gave us was a lot of faith in who and what we are and who we would like to be. Do others feel the same way too? That marriage removes the primary reason for the me-too.

Oh, and might I add, I worked really, really hard at my job. And here's a realization. I love to work hard. I do not really know whether I love my job, I never am able to think rationally on this. And I don't really care. As in, what is the choice? The work is not such that I hate waking up in the morning for it. I am quite happy with work. And when a deliverable is placed, it has to be done, right? And yes, 'Friends claim he's grown aloof and prim/ his boss, though, is well pleased with him'. Fair enough.

B) A colleague asked why I do not write on Business. Especially the outsourcing industry, which he believes (and at the risk of sounding pompous, I concur) that I have a reasonable basic understanding of. At least enough to have a viewpoint on matters. And having worked on Organizational Strategy for a fair bit of time, I have written these humongously long and verbose emails at times which can very easily become blog posts.... On re-reads, they do look like blog posts to me.

I know the answer to this question. The answer is that earlier I did not write because I was not convinced that my ideas were right or logical, and now I don't because I know that my viewpoints are right, and none of these viewpoints are stand-out-ishly new or innovative. They have all been said. And my conviction in them, or non-conviction as the case may be, came about with thought put into the ideas. This comes from increased reading, online and on physical media of course. And am just not interested in actively looking out for the next idea that I could disagree on. Or to tell the world that I have a viewpoint on a certain matter, however staid it might be. There may be another reason, and this stems from my incessant writing on sport. I care deeply about sport. I might not care so deeply about business, that there are points just waiting to come out, even if they have been said a hundred times beforehand.

C) I asked this question to myself. Why are my blog posts the size of tweets, tweets the size of facebook comments, and facebook comments of blogs?

And this is a question that I do not know the answer to very well. Maybe, just maybe, dear reader of this blog, I do not trust you enough to have a conversation with you. I don't know you too well, remember. And facebook friends are fine. Maybe that. I am not sure. I was a fairly regular and diligent blogger once, writing about all kinds of stuff. And I still do write. Then?

D) Why are comments gone?

Answer, for no particular reason. They will be back sometime.