New Resolutions, New Resolve

I must admit that it is a very difficult task to keep resolutions. Nonetheless, I shall attempt to make - and keep - a new resolution. Fittingly enough in this context, the resolution is to maintain my blog regularly from now onwards.

I rather regret the fact that I have not been able to maintain many of my previous blogs, especially when I think about all that has happened in the intervening months - be they momentous or mundane. That, if anything, was a major prompting for a fresh start.

Although I am still relatively ambivalent about diaries, there are several reasons why I have decided to make a renewed effort at keeping this online journal. Firstly, I have realized how out of touch I am with a great many of my friends and relatives back home, many of whom I have not spoken to in a long while, and this journal will provide a means by which they can keep track of what I am doing, if only in a very impersonal way. This might undoubtedly seem rather narcissistic, and to a degree it certainly is, but the practical value to me makes it worth it, and I must admit that I have never been one to shy away from expressing his thoughts or views openly to begin with.

An added incentive of course, is that keeping such a journal is a great means of forcing myself to write, besides being a record of my own personal thoughts. If I intend at all to become a journalist, and that is an option that I have not ruled out, then it would be greatly advantageous to have practice in synthesizing and setting down my thoughts and opinions regularly. Also, on a more personal note, I think it will be interesting at some level for me to look back, something in the future at what I have written here - something to reflect and laught about when I am older, and hopefully wiser.