First one

Well, this should be the original first post. The first one went out even before I figure out where to write ;). So let us treat this as the first post..


The sole purpose of these posts is to improve my writing skills and be more articulate. So nothing serious would be discussed here, at least, hopefully nothing serious or important would be discussed ;) With that desclaimer, I remain with one question, what to write about? Setting out to write something with out any idea what to write is the biggest challenge. Almost as big a task as public speaking without any point or no knowledge of the point of discussion.

Well, let me start with an erstwhile interesting topic of mine. This captivated me, made me feel like I've conquered the world (well, almost..) for quite sometime. I used to beam proudly with the thought that I could achieve it.Yes, I'm talking about one which is perceived to be world's most arduous and daunting things to do.. stop smoking. Don't worry :) I'm not going to discuss how to stop smoking not how did I achieve it. But now, after few months if I look back at the whole thing it looks like quite trivial thing to do in life. Recently couple of friends, erstwhile smoking partners, inquired about how long I quit smoking I had to calculate, yes I've already forgot how long it has been since I smoked my last. It was close to a year. I've almost forgot the fact that I was a smoker once, of course it was not a great thing to remember.

The point is a problem looked so big and almost an unattainable task once, seems to be quite a simple and natural thing to do now. Someone said correctly that life of problem is quite small compared to the life itself.

By the way I'll try to post few public comments and thoughts I posted on smoking and quitting before :)

- Thanks,
Sreekanth