HALF-BAKED LIVES

My name is Benedict; my mother, father (he's no more) and my friends call me Benny. To pretend that I'm somebody important, at some point in life I combined both my names and now I'm known (if at all) as `Benny Benedict'.

My intimate friends call me many other names. I'm important to them, they are very imporant to me; so my friends don't care what my real name is or what my titles are.

Today, March 19, 2006, I decided to create my blog. I know I'm not yet ready. I like to write, but I write longer and deeper only when I know that Time is waiting for me; but rarely does it happen as I'm always on the move, doing many things at a time and leaving almost everything incomplete.

I don't know how to describe myself. Computers have made my self-description easier with the `foward slash'(/). At no point do I have a complete answer to the eternal introspection "Who am I?" So I put myself in paranthesis, I bracket my self-definition.

I happen to be from Trichur, Kerala, India. I happen to be a catholic priest, working full time in media. Yes, happen to be......anything can change!

I have already said too many things about me, unintentionally: that I'm a man on the move (el pasajero= traveler, in Spanish), that I'm a priest and I'm active in media. I also said I leave things incomplete. If ever I write my autobiography I will title it `Half-Baked Life/ves'. This might be the best description about myself. I have lived my life/ves half-baked and continue to SERVE my life/ves to others `half-baked'. Take my life/ves or throw it/them away.

Or TRY to complete it/them....welcome!