I’ve finally come to terms with myself to start writing and if you’re still stuck somewhere between your head and heart whether to start giving meaning to your thoughts and words, read this piece.
In 2020, I finally came to terms with myself to start writing and if you’re still stuck somewhere between your head and heart whether to start giving meaning to your thoughts and words, read this piece.
“You have a flair for writing, you should write more often”, said my professor who taught me political philosophy during my under-graduation. He was an amazing teacher and a wonderful person whom I really admired. All I could respond to him for his compliment was, “Thank You Sir” (with a smile). The first time he said this to me was in the year 2015, and maybe his soul might read this article (from a place unknown to us) and feel some contentment.
Do not wait for tomorrow and days after tomorrow. Just take your pen or your keyboard and just start writing. So what if our writing is not ‘up to the mark’? When you feel you’ve written junk, remember the friend on the keyboard or mobile phone – the delete key or the backspace.
Any parts of the writing can be edited and revised. Feel free to embrace the delete key, but use it wisely! Writing can often be challenging at times, but it is still better than writing nothing at all. Finding our own ways of befriending the writing process is essential to really soak in the love for writing. You start with a blank page, and the page stares at you, daring you to make your next move. But instead of trying to overpower the intimidating page, just carve down your next few words.
In the words of Maya Angelou, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”. Thus, writing as a whole process is very therapeutic and gives refuge to our thoughts on paper and screens, and permanently gets settled in our hearts. Why not write your next story?
Before 2015, I too felt that I should write something, at least something, but could never gather enough time and patience to do so. I think I was being lazy. I had time to do almost everything – staring at the walls, sitting and scribbling in my notebooks, giving reasons that I do not have enough time, among other random junk reasons.
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” Remember these precious words by Charles Dickens in David Copperfield? Why delay writing when you can write at least a few words now?
However bad a writer you see yourself as, there will be a day when you’ll be a better writer than yesterday and a much better writer than today. What matters here is that you don’t give up on writing. I never gave up on writing. I keep writing like a beautiful paintbrush wanting to colour a scenery.
Now, I have realized that I have no reason to hold back my desire to make words flawlessly fall on pages or on your laptop or mobile screens. Now, I want to write. I want to write for every time I’ve lost thinking that I will write one day. I want to write about every emotion that I wanted to express that remains buried somewhere deep inside me. I want to write so I can tell myself that I too can write ‘with flair’.
So, I think it’s time, I should start writing more. And maybe you should do it too if you are still thinking – just start writing!
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