My experiment with ink is not something new, but sharing it with a larger group has definitely been a rare phenomenon. After I got over the euphoria of having written my first blog it was time to write the other one! Writing another wasn’t a big task , fighting the nymphs within indeed was! Let me share this anecdote in relation to my writing, for you can take a cue from lessons I learnt and apply it in any pursuits. After publishing the blog, the appreciation that flowed in (let’s not talk about the criticisms here..!) , emanated a little pride and arrogance . Candid as it may sound, with it also came anxiety that would I be able to continue writing and keep up the promise I made to “unconventional wisdom” and encourage its readers. With anxiety came fear that what if I get restricted to being a “one blog wonder”.(not that my first blog was a block buster…;-)!).Days followed after writing the blog had been filled with extreme emotions ranging from confidence to confusions, from delightfulness of sharing my opinions to desperation of writing more, from splurge of accomplishing something to streak of arrogance. These myriad emotions kept hovering over me just like candles hovering over the Hogwarts feast (remember Harry Potter…).And with this hazy mind-set I began to put pen to paper. I did everything to come up with an apt topic. I woke up at 4 am (heard writers get up before the sun!), ate only fresh fruits on tenterhooks that it would generate some fresh ideas (does that even make sense..?), spent hours in coffee shop sipping copious cold coffees with vibrant hope that something will emerge..(yes fat did…!!).
After few desperate attempts and lot of contemplation came the realisations. Firstly, to create something of lasting value , one needs to liberate oneself of detrimental emotions and thoughts (read anxiety, doubts, arrogance). Secondly, I was trying to create something original by copying the ways of others (Hell, I have to create my own ways …!) Thirdly, I was trying to create! (Does that even qualify for being a mistake??)Yes! For artist don’t create, they express!
And so here I am to express, express all out and from the heart. It was the little light within me which steered and bubbled the provoking insights. The light is within each of us that can help us to lighten our lives, our paths. Its upto you to switch on that light and twinkle, twinkle like no one else does!
Keep expressing!
Cheers
Unconventional wisdom and the ink..!
