Revival

There are many, though why and how they exist I cannot fathom, who have followed the fortunes of this blog closely over the past few months. They have often graced it with their much-appreciated presence, and at times, have even been kind enough to leave behind their keen insights on varied subject matter before departing. Some of them have even pursued me beyond the accepted-at-large and well-defined boundaries of Blogspot, and have mailed me thoughts on subjects that they have, in the course of their daily browsing, stumbled across on this blog. Many of these people that I talk about have seen this blog in better days, and they would surely concur with me when I say that the general health of this blog has been, over a considerable amount of time in the past, undoubtedly deteriorating.

It all started with the annoying song lyrics. They just kept coming. But that was not where it ended. The next to arrive were the galling one-liners. They left many mildly irritated, and many more, more irritated. But the worst was yet to come.

It was probably a bit more than a month back when this blog, exploring new depths, rather abruptly reached its nadir. It was undoubtedly at its lowest ebb when in addition to all that mentioned above, this blog encountered, for the first time in its rather short existence, poor grammar.
And in poor grammar, it seemed to have finally found its nemesis. After that, the updates got infrequent, the comments got boring, and the posts got close to downright disgusting.

It was apparent to all, save a few dim-witted morons who kept trying to persuade me to the contrary, that this blog had finally fallen upon ill days. It was, in all probability, close to breathing its last. It needed relief. It desired quick intervention. Now was the time, as the commonly known expression goes, for all the good men to come to the aid of the party.

Unfortunately for it, most of the good men in question didn't quite have the mandatory password required to come to the aid of the party. The responsibility, therefore, for better or for worse, finally came to me. In me, it found a somewhat reluctant and slightly diffident taker. For I had had little experience in such matters, and till that time, my heroics were mainly restricted to fields where damsels in distress were involved. Fallen blogs, so to speak, comprised completely new and uncharted territory.

So I vacillated, and procrastinated, and all this while, this blog continued to tread perilously on the thin line between glorious life and ignominious absence thereof. Fortunately for it, and this was probably the only little bit of fortune it had come across in a rather long time, there were other, higher, forces at work.

There come moments in every man's life, when he witnesses the absolute, unadulterated truth. When he becomes one with the complex flow of the universe, and can experience first-hand how rotten a place our universe is. It was during one such brief moment of clarity that I realized how closely the existence of this blog was tied up with my own, besides also realizing how rotten a place our universe is.

Then I hesitated no more, and arduously set out on the task of saving this blog. And today, close to the dawn of the 23rd day of January in the year 2006, I promise to never abandon it again. At least not till I feel like it.

I do realize that a lot needs to still be done to ensure that this blog attains accepted standards of normalcy, or at least generally-known standards of its former abnormalcy. As I have always said, for purposes such as blogs, continuity is of the essence. Continuity, however, in the case of this blog, seems to have been force-fed about a ton of dynamite and consequently set off. My first task, therefore, will be to restore continuity.

Tomorrow, or whenever I post next, I will be posting with an aim to restore this continuity. I shall therefore be resuming from where I left off. I will start there, and continue till where I presently am. Then, continuity restored, I will proceed further.
At least that's what the plan is.