The Cream and Scum of Blogging

This post has been published by me as a part of the Blog-a-Ton 1, the first edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we write. To be part of the next edition, visit and start following Blog-a-Ton.

Scum and cream both surface, slimily climbing the fluid staircase of their liquid wombs, sucking life from the amniotic juice that gives them their existence.

Gaining texture, growing layer by layer, both rise to the top, smothering their mother-solution, draining it of all its properties.

Both appear only when the emulsion that gives them life becomes stagnant and complacent.

Yet one is glorified and the other reviled.

Time for us to reflect a bit on value judgments, my friends—one man’s cream may be another’s scum and vice versa!

Scum may feed and sustain while cream clogs arteries and becomes the cause of death.

I’ve always been wary about making decisions on worthiness.

I believe all forms of being, however nanoscopic,--bacteria, virus, algae and all—are whole and universal in themselves and that they are all integral, organic parts of the cells that make up the universes.

Cream and Scum—they are both valuable, both worthy in their own ways, both capable of good and bad effects, both essential in the tasks they are destined to perform.

When I write, or you write, or someone else writes a blog, that writing is an expression of a little part of the universes that are or will be or have the potential of being.

If scum I am meant to be, I aim to be the best scum it is possible for me to be!

The fellow Bloga-Tonics who took part in this Blog-a-Ton are Arjuna, Saimanohar, Dhiman, Vipul Grover, Avdi, Daisy Blue, Sid 'Ravan' Kabe, Shankar, Shilpa Garg, Bharathi, Ranee again and Pawan. Click on their respective names to read their posts on The Cream and Scum of Blogging. To be part of the next edition of this online marathon, visit and start following Bloga-Ton.