Showing posts with label Conversation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conversation. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Day 1 - Conversation

He: Why the title "Off the fence"?
Me: I have been on the fence about the whole idea of blogging. Now I am off the fence and decided to step into this world of blogging. 


He: What is the issue with blogging?
Me: I am not comfortable about letting the whole world know about everything in my life. 


He: What convinced you?
Me: The fact that I control what I publish made me feel comfortable about this whole activity. 


He: Does that mean you are going to publish esoteric posts that lack emotion and remain detached from reality?
Me: Firstly, a post being esoteric or not is up to the reader to decide. As far as the reality part is concerned, yes I will try and keep it close to reality as creatively possible. 


He: Will you be a regular in this blogging circuit now? 
Me: May be, may be not. Only time will tell. Thanks for helping me out with my first post by asking "meaningful" questions. 
He: You are welcome. I want to see what you come up with on Day 2. 

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