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+# This is gonna be legendary
+
+Welcome to The NonPersonal Diary. This is my archive of writings.
+
+[See more on the about page](/about)
+
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+title = "About"
+description = "About this blog"
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+
+# My not-so-personal diary
+
+Since I was young, I've wanted to write. I've liked reading, and I wanted to write something myself. 
+Never had an idea about what I wanted to write, I just wanted to write. Something that was mine.
+It needn't be a story, doesn't even have to make much sense. I just want my thoughts to take shape 
+into words, into something which the future me, or others can read, something which hopefully
+affects the reader in some way. It's about leaving a mark, not about being good or widely known.
+
+What I find satisfying is writing by hand as everything is quiet, and as long as I'm writing
+something I'm interested in. With my favourite fountain pen - filled with black ink because its
+viscosity is what enhances the pleasure, the feel in my hand, the sound - on my favourite spiral
+notebook, with nice white pages, dumping all my thoughts onto the helpless piece of paper.
+
+## But, what do I want to write about?
+
+Everything around me influences me, more than I'd like to admit. Every now and then I have this
+new experience, something new to talk about. I don't want to stick to a theme, that's not the
+kind of person I am. But, I don't want my writings to get diluted with all the irrelevant 
+thoughts I have. Which takes me to the conclusion that, I have a lot of thoughts, and much
+of them are worth writing about. But, there's nothing keeping them in check. I need a mechanism
+to organize my thoughts, before I can go on and write something meaningful.
+
+### Journaling
+
+I've found that, keeping a journal or a diary is one of the best ways to organize your thoughts.
+Writing your experiences in a diary helps you control your emotions, and makes your thoughts
+clear. And it also makes your writing better, so that's like killing two birds with one stone.
+
+## The meaning behind The NonPersonal Diary
+
+NonPersonal is a term whose meaning I just made up. This blog contains excerpts from my personal
+diary/journal, pointless stories, or other things written by me. In a way, this blog is my
+personal diary, but the public version. So it's not-so-personal, or you can say, NonPersonal.
+
+# About Me
+
+My name is Vidhu Kant Sharma, and I also have another website named [vidhukant.com](https://vidhukant.com)
+but since I don't expect to have much common audience on both of them, I'll introduce myself here.
+
+{{ 
+  img(
+    src="/pics/me.webp", 
+    alt="My photo", 
+    caption="One-of-a-kind, one of one, the only one", 
+    title="Vidhu Kant Sharma", 
+    height="256", 
+    width="256"
+  ) 
+}}
+
+I'm 
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+title = "Guestbook"
+description = "Please sign my guestbook!"
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+
+# Oopsie Daisy
+
+Something went wrong :(
+
+No worries, if the issue persists you can just E-mail me and I'll fix the
+issue _and_ add your guestbook entry! (Don't forget to add the necessary details though)
+
+[Return to guestbook history](/guestbook)
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+title = "Guestbook"
+description = "Please sign my guestbook!"
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+
+# Guestbook
+
+This is a record of the people who have visited this website. Thank you all for hanging around!
+Some of these people also have their own websites, so you can check them out. But click on 
+external links at your own risk!
+
+[Sign my guestbook!](#sign-my-guestbook)
+
+# Sign my Guestbook!
+
+Let the fact be recorded that you stumbled upon this little website.
+
+Each entry will go through a manual screening process, forgive me if I take days to update this. 
+
+{{ guestbook_form() }}
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+title = "Guestbook"
+description = "Please sign my guestbook!"
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+# Thank You!
+
+Thanks for signing my guestbook. Now after a little manual review, it'll be visible
+to the world!
+
+[Return to guestbook history](/guestbook)
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+sort_by = "date"
+template = "posts.html"
+page_template = "post.html"
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+title = "The most intellectual thing I've heard in a while"
+description = ""
+date = 2025-05-07
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+
+A few days ago, me and some friends were going somewhere, we were 4 guys on two scooters.
+I was with this guy riding pillion with me, let's call him [Redacted].
+
+We overtook the other two friends on the road, and I jokingly called them a couple of
+tortoises. That's when [Redacted] said, "But if they are behind us, that makes us the tortoises."
+
+It took a minute to click in.
+
+This statement blew my mind. It might sound small but I never would've thought of this.
+[Redacted] is truly an intellectual.
+
+P.S. If you don't get the context, check out [The Tortoise and the Hare](https://read.gov/aesop/025.html)