Welcome to my world. This is my first post ever in any blog and I dont know where to start. Too many random thoughts jostling for space making it tough to pick any one single stream to hyperventilate on. I have often been told I have a gift for the written word and though I have never actually written anything of import for such an assumption to be made, I would still like to believe the many kind hearted people who have encouraged me to put pen to paper - or as is the case - finger to keyboard. Its a hot day outside, and while the air-conditioning is effective, it does nothing to soothe the molten embers that are burning my insides. Where they came from, I can only begin to imagine, and how I can douse them remains to be seen.

I have always tried to believe there is more to this world and our fleeting existence than we can comprehend. From time immemorial, man has tried answering basic questions like who am I, where do I come from, why am I here and where am I going? The Greeks meditated on this and gave birth to philosophy. Science gave us evolution, logic and space-time conundrums. Religion proclaimed to hold all the answers, while only giving rise to more questions. Pop culture gave us easy fixes with simple FAQ's for everything. And yet the search is far from over. In the Beatles Anathology, John Lennon said that he had stopped searching - perhaps he had found the answers he sought, perhaps he was content. But while these embers keep burning inside me, I have no choice to keep searching in this random, haphazard manner. Hopefully pouring out my inner-most thoughts might lead to some clarity and help me find Avalone, the mythic destination of my journey.

Please understand that this blog is not for your entertainment, its my therapy. If my musings and battles should make you smile, frown, ponder or regurgitate, that would only be an unfortunate (or fortunate) byproduct and not my aim. Some of you may sense a kinship with my thoughts, some of you may relate to them, some of you may be reviled by them and some of you may scorn at the lack of intellectual depth. That is not my concern. Let this be my legal disclaimer-of-sorts. I promise nothing to anyone, only to be true to myself by displaying the innermost recesses of my mind for public consumption. Borrowing a title from one of my favourite books, this is the raw, uncensored World According To Sourabh. Welcome to my world.