WRITING, THE RIGHT THING TO DO!

 

I have always believed in writing as I feel putting it down on paper is as good as body massage. It that takes the fatigue out of you by pressurizing the right points on the body and ensuring a fine blood circulation. The norm is that you do feel refreshed after a massage. Same way, by writing it down on paper, a lot of clutter in your head is cleared. I feel it serves you two ways, one you are happy that the clutter is cleared from your head and second is that it’s downloaded on the paper in a much comprehensible manner where you are now able to take a better look at it holistically and alter as required. It’s like looking at the final picture while solving the jigsaw puzzle. Otherwise the puzzle pieces all look the same.

 

I always had an urge to express my thoughts and feeling more in a textual format rather than vocalizing it. That way I could clearly have my own time with my thoughts to transition them from one medium to other. The feeling was always strong, however the rigor and the discipline was lacking. The day I saw this advertisement of 30 days writing challenge, especially coming up in the Covid-19 times, and grabbed it at once. What motivated me was the discipline incorporated in the mission that you miss twice a week and you are out. That created a consistency in me of writing about 500 words daily. The other thing which I realized was that since this was a daily task, every day the moment I get up, there is one prominent thought in my head which is, what should I write about today? Constantly I am on the hunt for the right trigger. I recall a lot of incidences from the past that I am aware about in in others life as well as the experiences which I have had in the past. I also very consciously all the transactions and experiences which can give me a germ to write the article.  

 

I remember, the very first day I had no clue what to write about. I sat at my desk, trying hard to recall something interesting worth writing. But absolutely nothing. I kept staring at the all in front of me. There was a calendar hanging on that wall. I just felt like visualizing that if the calendar was to have a dialogue with me, what all would it say to me? That thought enthused me. I started thinking deeper about this concept and slowly started punching the keyboard. Before I could realize after forty minutes I had a story written with about eight hundred words. I posted it on the group and felt so happy.

 

Then came the next day. It was slightly better and the story happened, and on and on and on. Today it’s the seventh day and now it’s into a zone of habit formation. It is much easier to think and write these days. I have not received a lot of feedback yet, however I have been drawn into this process of writing and creating something meaningful. I have also realized that writing short stories makes me happy. I have made an attempt to write about different subjects and also experimented with the presentation styles.

 

I don’t know how many have read my stories but for sure I have derived immense pleasure out of creating them. Discipline is the true master of performance is also something that was known but experienced in a new manner this time. I am quite determined to keep thoughts and churning stories not just for 30 days but for along long time now. I am sure one day, I will have a reader class for my works and they will be appreciated. But it doesn’t matter, because that is not why I write.

 

I write because it gives me a feeling of detoxification.

 

 (C) RAHUL SHINDE   07/June/2020