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Who says appearance isn’t intriguing?

Appearance is important. Yes, it is true and it is tempting too. The more I try to download templates for my blog, the more dissatisfied I become. That’s because my limited IT skills does not take me far. Every time I see a new template, I get carried away. And I get this I-got-to-have-this kind of feeling. Temptation is so strong that I would love to have a new template every day for my blog. It is now possible to have our dreams come true, thanks to all the wonderful people who are behind blogspot.com.

My temptation proves expensive, I realize. Instead of jotting down a few lines of thoughts, I end up spending hours at stretch trying to figure out html codes, which to me is like trying to make sense out of alien’s language. But I have managed to do a few in the past week. I am dissatisfied with it again.

Now it seems if a blog changes its appearance every day and does not carry significant a proportionate amount of posts, then the blogger can be said to be more concerned about the form than the content. Likewise one can deduce a lot of issues.

But you see, that’s way with us. And often it is the temptation, one’s unending quest for beauty and glamor that dispels marriage failures, I guess. The ocean is vast and unending, but it is the question of how happy we can be even when we are in this small lake or a little pond for that matter.

Appearance is intriguing, no doubt but we have a much higher purpose than to spend our useful energy in deriving this mere short-term satisfaction.

Comments

  1. Sorry, I couldn't help you on that, but i guess have been kind unkindly, look at your blog it is bettering by the day and look at mine, i am just there where i was. After my first failure i gave up and didn't want to experiment at the cost of losing so many setting i already have.
    You got it right, post is more important than the design.
    Keep writing!

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