It's a secolo!!

Thought of putting up a fundoo post on relationships. Anyways that will have to wait until tomorrow becoz.....with this post, I have 'scored' a century (drum-beats, hoots, whistles, cat-calls)...:)! So, this post is dedicated to explaining a bit of me, myself and Chitraaz......

Uninterested readers can drop out at this level becuase a head-ache may be in the offing after reading the rest :)! As to the rest of the 'brave' ones.....read on....

I have always been a very private individual. And I mean private in every sense. I hate explaining myself, my emotions, my responses and my reactions to anyone.

But through this blog, I have done just that. And I have gone a step further in bridging the gap between myself and those few chosen ones. Because being private is not the same as being anonymous.

There are times when I involve myself very actively in and around me. But during the rest (which is most), I prefer to take the backseat – just observing life and people change around me.........

To most of you out there, this blog has served the purpose of a window, letting you on into bits and pieces of my existence out here. However, I have to admit that there’s a lot of it which remains untouched and unblogged and will remain so – a part of my private persona.

To those chosen ones out there, you have to understand that beneath this sunny façade chugs away a realistic and down-to-earth mind. Much as I am afraid of rejections, it takes time on my part, and patience on your part, to explain what I am and what I have become. And to do this, I have to re-visit some of the most painful periods of my life, those which I would like to have permanently buried and sealed. And I can do this only for very few people......and no-one else.

Thanks to this blog, I have had the chance to meet some like-minded people – a rarity because I believe that people are individuals in every sense of the word, and no two individuals are alike.

I am not that detached enough from the rest not to feel happy when people (some whom I have not even met) let me know how much they look forward to reading my posts. Achaa lagta hain that for them reading my blogs has become as much a practice as I writing them. When they express their appreciation through comments or mails. When I receive mails like “Hi chitra...me a silent reader of ur blog :) cud relate a lot to many of ur posts :) read ur "Taken for granted? " ...just felt like sending u this :) cheer up :)” with one of sweetest C&H strips. Or when I received chocolates all the way from Japan :). And most importantly when they identify with what I write. For me that kind of response is ....well....awesome to say the least.

Much as I like to believe that I am “Witty, sarcastic, optimistic”, I would like to clarify that I was not born one; rather I was moulded by something called the vagaries of life. Sometimes harsh, sometimes smooth, sometimes unrelenting, sometimes unchanging, and sometimes unforgiving, life goes on......

As I stated, I am a bystander – just observing life and people change around me.........and getting changed in the process......like a piece of driftwood.....just trying to connect to the rest of the world through this platform......through my space.