Answers to a young lady's queries!

Curiosity killed the cat. Or so they say. In any case cats do have nine lives! So I'll take one of those nine to satisfy the curiosity of one petite young lady.

It so happens that this petite young lady is a close friend of mine and also the person to whom I entrusted the arduous and boring (a tasteless effort at being humble!) task of proof-reading my posts. This young lady paid me a rare compliment upon reading my two posts. She told me that she had taken the extreme effort of reading my posts after a whole day of work and had been staring at the computer screen through drooping eyelids. "You must have written a nice post since I actually finished reading it before I fell asleep!", she remarked. For those who know her well, this remark was heaps of praise by her standards. So she had made my day and to show my gratitude I must answer her queries.

The first of these was why are you writing with this weird name, JBozz? It's really embarrassing to have to answer this question as I have no humble answer. Charles Dickens' first novel, The Pickwick Papers was the compilation of the pieces he wrote for a magazine with the title Sketches By Boz. Boz was the pen name Dickens used at the start of his career. I'm a great fan of Charles Dickens and vain enough of my own writings to choose my pen name as J(for junior)Bozz.

The second query was why my blog has this "stupid" title. That is the exact word that this particular petite young lady used. The answer is simple. It goes like this. I have asked a number of people what they look forward to, what they live for. The answers have never been satisfactory to me. Most spoke about marriage, having a loving family, becoming somebody of repute or even becoming the CEO of the company they worked for! So that's why we live? To attempt to leave our 'footprints in the sands of time' or to achieve the same quest for immortatility by having some part of us taken forward by our descendents? Somehow, I don't feel convinced and hence my quest to find an answer and hence the name of my blog.

Finally, I must conlcude this post with a very important disclaimer which applies to all my posts. Any similarity between the characters in my writings and real people is purely coincidental and unintended.