I have been reading a lot of notes from many different people. each with a unique style of writing. Till a long time i was shy of writing anything and making it public. i really admired the courage of the 'many' people i have read. The thing which has and will always amaze me is that how writing brings out the altogether different side of the individual- the more emotional, the more serious and best of all the more creative side.
The saying 'to each his own' stands so true in this context. words is all we have and i guess always will. the point of this note is that though it looks a very famous and 'cool' activity, it involves something way beyond that. i just wrote a paper on a topic which didn't really turn me on. If it was just about writing i would have done it without much pain, but it was more than writing a test, it was about the extra knowledge one gains from that task. Me and my fellow mates doing the same task share this feeling. After writing that paper, talent called 'writing' gained a higher status for me. to feel is one thing but to find appropriate words for them is a totally different task. for this you have to have either a great vocabulary or a way with word or both. i have none!
Its refreshing to read fresh thoughts expressed so finely that one is forced to think about it. I have a habit of scribing behind my subject books during my lectures(i personally believe lectures are the only time when our creative side peeps out), and reading it so many times that after a point i cant believe it was my own work. The quotes made on the way to station, the poems wrote in a FC lecture, a song made at a dingy tea stall, a memorable quote from a popular old movie, a line in a random song which clicks just right are just a part of the long list of most creative work done.
all i have gained from reading people's personal, public or just random work is just that each one of us have a Wordsworth or Yeats hiding somewhere in the end of a book or the back of a waste bill!
P.S.- my way of saying 'job well done' to each and every word written by anyone ever!
The saying 'to each his own' stands so true in this context. words is all we have and i guess always will. the point of this note is that though it looks a very famous and 'cool' activity, it involves something way beyond that. i just wrote a paper on a topic which didn't really turn me on. If it was just about writing i would have done it without much pain, but it was more than writing a test, it was about the extra knowledge one gains from that task. Me and my fellow mates doing the same task share this feeling. After writing that paper, talent called 'writing' gained a higher status for me. to feel is one thing but to find appropriate words for them is a totally different task. for this you have to have either a great vocabulary or a way with word or both. i have none!
Its refreshing to read fresh thoughts expressed so finely that one is forced to think about it. I have a habit of scribing behind my subject books during my lectures(i personally believe lectures are the only time when our creative side peeps out), and reading it so many times that after a point i cant believe it was my own work. The quotes made on the way to station, the poems wrote in a FC lecture, a song made at a dingy tea stall, a memorable quote from a popular old movie, a line in a random song which clicks just right are just a part of the long list of most creative work done.
all i have gained from reading people's personal, public or just random work is just that each one of us have a Wordsworth or Yeats hiding somewhere in the end of a book or the back of a waste bill!
P.S.- my way of saying 'job well done' to each and every word written by anyone ever!
so bloody true! writin is scary coz it is so easily avaliable for scrutiny.. but stuff written at d back of notebooks or scribled somewhere in a lost mind, is wat makes us, us!
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