Mal - You're waiting for a train; a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure.

I guess this quote, taken from the latest blockbuster ( ) hit 'Inception' is pretty poignant..

Eleven months ago, when I first decided to uproot from my Blogger account and migrate over to NuTang, I had wanted this blog to remain relatively private, its existence only revealed to a few trusted friends.

Maybe this had worked out far too well. Currently, the stats tell me that my blog readership languishes to the extent of only one unique visitor per day (on average). And more often than not, I'm assuming it is always the same person(s) that doggedly supports my writing week after week. And that's even after I finally revealed this blog to the world via a post on my blogspot near Christmas. Perhaps that four-month gap killed off any hopes that my friends will ever find me blogging ever again. A blessing in disguise? So it seemed then.

Anyways, I want to say a big thank you to my solitary supporter(s) who have propped up this page especially now when the whole notion of blogging is unfortunately being superseded by social networking platforms amongst all our contemporaries. It just ain't that cutting edge to write weary-deary posts anymore when one can just post brief statuses and still keep in touch with the people they know - and also perhaps being increasingly well versed in paraphrasing each update to 140 characters or less?

Back to the top - What does 'Inception' got to do with 'solitude'? To those who have already seen the film, you would agree with me that Cobb was living a gutted, guilty, lonely life fleeing from his past - All because of a path he chose that sparked off a series of changes in his wife Mal that culminated tragically with her death.

Similarly, I feel that I'm at a crossroads once again. A lot of choices to make that could potentially impinge on my future. Something that has always been at the back of my mind since the start of the year. It's as if my train, my so-called 'arbiter' - never came.
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I had not made my choice that's why.
Like how the train could only arrive in Cobb and Mal's world if the subject dreamed it as such within her subconscious.

And that's what's so agonising about it all.

To sum it up - The personification of solitude ->
(That's one of the reasons why NuTang IMHO triumphs over other blog hosts)

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