When he started that blog, it was only meant for a fun. But, the fate was prepared to take him in a totally different direction! As a blogger who started an honest blogging career for a while, but received very little feed back from the cruel outside world of people filled with partiality and favouritism, he decided to start his new blog posing as a female! It is not a clever idea that someone with a sound mind would do, but he did it as his last resort! That was the only way to attract attention from others, he believed!
He made a beautiful profile of a girl who is at her nineteen years of age and named her as 'Dahlia.' He had a soft corner for that name because there was a real girl with the same name in his college with whom he had an one sided love affair! He tried to win her heart but because of his poor tactics, he was unable to convey the message! Eventually he forgot everything about her when his priorities changed naturally. But the thought about her always remained dormant in his mind.
Ever since his blog was up in the Internet in the girl's name, he got enough attention even from his debut blog entry itself. He had put a photo of an empty plate and scribbled some words to fill the emptiness of the page without even giving a second thought! In the following morning, his profile views were thirty nine and he had managed to receive twenty six comments! Some of the readers praised the empty plate as a blank and pure mind and the others supported the idea! That was indeed a new lesson for him. From then on, a new journey had began. Within another six months of time his blog in the name of Dahlia became one of the super hit blogs where plenty of people joined and interacted. There was an outcry to nominate this blog for the best female blogger award organised by a blog group!
He was really enjoying the pleasure of having a very successful blog. He lived in the blogosphere as a girl. Some of the readers send him letters seeking for a love affair and some of them even offered a possible marriage!
He slowly felt himself that the game was getting out of hand! He wanted to end this anonymity somehow, but was never prepared to loose his readership! He imagined of enjoying the same luxury in his own name! He was constantly thinking about the ways by which he can resolve this whole affair without getting hurt by himself!
That was the time when the most unexpected happened! The girl called Dahlia and her family moved into the opposite flat! That was a real shock for him. It took days to recover from that impact!
The families got introduced each other.
He felt happy in the end because he hoped to make atleast a friendship with Dahlia! She visited his house a couple of times! The parents even agreed for them to have a combined study for the coming exams!
This latest twist in the whole episode became very crucial for him because he feared that Dahlia may easily find out about his blog as she has now the freedom to log on into his home computer! He started to get nightmares! He wanted to end the blog adventure as early as possible by posting a farewell post to his trusted readers.
He sat in front of the computer. It took a full day to finish the farewell post. He explained his situations to do this extreme measure and revealed that he is a male but was posing as a female to have a popular weblog! But now, the fact that he had fed up with the whole idea, he now wants to reveal his new identity.
He requested the readers to have mercy and to continue supporting his new blog with the real identity, which he will be starting very soon!
He put his post in the blog.
He woke up in the morning to see the response. Opened the blog. To his surprise, he had seventy six comments in the inbox. He anxiously opened the first one and it read.."Dahlia.. very nice post as usual. Your April fool post looks very realistic...! Once again you proved that you are a convincing blogger...!"
He looked at the calender..
That day, unfortunately was the 1st of April..!
James that was awesome. I am still ROFL. Very clever and well written. And the last twist was a totally unexpected one. Rocking post, great story. You are a real genius...
Posted by: Alexis Leon | November 04, 2006 at 09:47 AM
LOL!! Good one bro!
Posted by: Jo | November 04, 2006 at 11:49 AM
:-))
Posted by: Sreejith Kumar | November 05, 2006 at 12:15 PM
hehehehe.
Posted by: kesi | November 06, 2006 at 08:09 AM
@Alexis: Thank you very much.I am excited to read your comment.Your words are much appreciated.
@Jo: Thank you Jo for your comment.
@Sreejith: Thank you Sreejith for reading this post.
@Kesi: Thanks Kesi.
Posted by: James Bright | November 06, 2006 at 04:48 PM
great story !
i will perhaps try the idea..
Posted by: anoop | November 06, 2006 at 07:24 PM
heheee ROFL...a lovely idea...end was simply fantastic !!!
Enjoyed the read !
Posted by: seema | November 07, 2006 at 08:34 PM
Thank you seema and Anoop.
Sorry for the delay in making any response.
Posted by: James Bright | November 10, 2006 at 05:48 PM
hehe. nice read n true to some extent
but not everyone has d same attitude towards blogs, what say ?
Posted by: AJAY | November 18, 2006 at 10:11 AM
Thanks Ajay.
Posted by: James Bright | November 26, 2006 at 05:01 PM
hi james,
no updates? hope all is well.
kesi
Posted by: Kesi | December 02, 2006 at 02:23 PM
Honesty Doesn't Pay :D truth of life, u have to carry on living with ur fake id. :) Very funny post =))
Posted by: Paresh | December 03, 2006 at 02:28 AM
Kesi,
Thank you very much.
I was only feeling lazy these days.
And surely was bit busy too. When I come from the hospital, I just do nothing!
I am going to update the blog.
Thanks ever so much.
God bless you and take care.
James.
Posted by: James Bright | December 03, 2006 at 08:59 AM
Paresh,
Thank you very much for the comment.
Fake id's can be used sometimes!
But not as our default set up!
That was only a story, remember!
Posted by: James Bright | December 03, 2006 at 09:12 AM