I attended this workshop on advanced content management some 4 months back - I mean this is not about that workshop or its contents - nothing to take away from the workshop - it was 2 days, well spent. The trainer there said that the mind works like "water flowing thro' a newly installed tap"...it is air first, then murky, gutter water and only after that the pristine, cool elixir follows! Wow! what a truly wonderful analogy.
Someone who'd read my blogs said my writing was so like "I was getting back at someone", as if its like I was venting out. It really bothered me, because yeah! I confess, I do write (sometimes) to get things out of my frame. But arent strokes the only form of expression, where you can not care, I mean, really give a damn about what others will think... I know Rushdie and Taslima would beg to differ! But really what sort of democracy bans instruments of liberal arts like paintings, books and movies! If Brit Colonialism followed "Divide and Rule", modern politics follows, "Deny and Rule" - depriving people of any chance to make their own rules and their own interpretations...
Sorry Rushdie and Nasreen, I need to get back to my blog here - so the point I was trying to get at is - Why do people write? Well I know it figures in most people's "100 things to do before I die", but really why do people write - from the very limited I read, I can tell you this - Some people write about secret things they always wanted to do/see happen, whilst others about the things they want to shout from roof tops, some because their life's journey was too colourful or because it was too black and white, why some write because they hate too much and some others because they love too much, some write because they know so much and others because they are still searching, some write because that's all they know while others write because there's so much to write about......... However everyone writes because they want to give a piece of themselves to the world, because they feel they owe you one! So what if its air at first and then some more gutter..... If the writer and the world can wait, the cool pristine elixir will follow.
Someone who'd read my blogs said my writing was so like "I was getting back at someone", as if its like I was venting out. It really bothered me, because yeah! I confess, I do write (sometimes) to get things out of my frame. But arent strokes the only form of expression, where you can not care, I mean, really give a damn about what others will think... I know Rushdie and Taslima would beg to differ! But really what sort of democracy bans instruments of liberal arts like paintings, books and movies! If Brit Colonialism followed "Divide and Rule", modern politics follows, "Deny and Rule" - depriving people of any chance to make their own rules and their own interpretations...
Sorry Rushdie and Nasreen, I need to get back to my blog here - so the point I was trying to get at is - Why do people write? Well I know it figures in most people's "100 things to do before I die", but really why do people write - from the very limited I read, I can tell you this - Some people write about secret things they always wanted to do/see happen, whilst others about the things they want to shout from roof tops, some because their life's journey was too colourful or because it was too black and white, why some write because they hate too much and some others because they love too much, some write because they know so much and others because they are still searching, some write because that's all they know while others write because there's so much to write about......... However everyone writes because they want to give a piece of themselves to the world, because they feel they owe you one! So what if its air at first and then some more gutter..... If the writer and the world can wait, the cool pristine elixir will follow.
3 comments:
I loved the analogy of the newly installed tap. I've always observed that writing gives me clarity into my thoughts. I can't speak to why many people write but to me i can complete my thought. I often surprise myself or learn something new about myself.
I really enjoy your posts and it's hard to point at a single reason for that. You speak from your heart, you speak on topics that resonates with me.... Thank you!
Hi... my name sake :) Yes writing helps, in a way it is like any adventures sports ... like jumping off of a cliff, because saying what you feel and opening it to public judgment is not easy. So write, for yourself and hoping to read yours soon!
If there is something that has made me feel happy and peaceful it is writing. I love to write... to express,to put words to feelings and emotions... and you are right.. one should always write for oneself.. in the process you might realize that there are others to whom it means somethings... but that will happen only when you write for yourself, reflecting what you are.
Btw on a completely different note, the mention of advanced content management brought back Satyam memories to life.. thank you! :)
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