Writing about Birds

The rain and strong winds are throwing the traffic into tangles. I wait at home for people to return home. waiting is never easy, at least for me it isn't, I believe it is difficult for anyone... so I inevitably go and log on either to facebook or gmail or worst comes to worst to the counter to see whether anyone has visited my blog.

What is this strange urge to write and to want someone to come and read your writing and comment on and appreciate it? It would serve no great purpose nor is anyone under any illusion that a facebook status message or a blog article is going to change the world. To change the world was never on the agenda anyway.

We keep working and not always the way the world wants. But the closer we are to what the world requires the greater is the chance of success. For instance if you write about dogs or birds no one is gonna read your article except for some special friends who may happen to like whatever you write. But if you write about birds on environment day or about how science endangers birds lives, then you may get one or two listeners more. If you write about how some member of the royal family had a penchant for birdsong and hence kept a cageful of birds then there is the added glamour to the whole thing. Better still if you write about a clan of people who eat birds after a secret ritual you have the audience eating out of your hand.