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Becoming a Writer begins with Becoming an Observer

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Becoming a writer begins with becoming an observer. One who looks closely to the things happening around us and can express it, in a much wider, deeper and brighter way. Wider in the sense that a writer is someone, seen in the society, as someone who can express things that most people cannot in words. Who are writers? We are wordsmiths, and we know how to cultivate the right emotions through our words. Deeper and more profound in the sense… that writers do not just look at something and write that. Our muse almost resides in looking underneath the things that are happening in society. This is why, when I had written in my book, Kaliyuga on My Curls : “ Destroyed buildings do not terrify me, What terrifies me is the lost identity ” My observation was attached to the bombings in Ukraine by Russia that had destroyed a school. The bomb did not just destroy the school, but it killed the memories, the stories, the legacy of the particular building. Brighter in the way, that when Jane...
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What is so difficult about Trying?

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Over the last few days, I have been playing basketball in my courtyard. It is nothing professional. It is just a recreational activity without a cemented court or rules. My mother had planned to tuck a basket at a good enough height at the anterior wall, and now I have been playing basketball, where my premium activity is to basket the ball without anyone snatching it away from my hands.  Let me tell you a secret? It is very tiring. Almost equal to giving up.  Every time I throw the ball above at it, the ball either gets hit on the wall and bounces back (not at me) at the other end of the yard. I would rush to catch it (without success) and run till the end of the fences where the ball had almost nowhere to go. I will take it back and try again and again it would get hit on the wall and push me to rush at some other direction. Tiring stuff. Fun yes, Tiring more.  It was tiring, because I was trying.  One of the hardest things about trying is that we feel we are not d...
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Communication is the Hallmark of Relationships

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  Hallmark of Relationships Over the years that I have grown up, one thing that has constantly stolen my attention is how people give up on their relationship rather than communicating. God has given you a mouth and a big one. We literally pity on people who cannot talk- are dumb and deaf- and here we are who would rather live in shadows of assumptions, pretentions and misinterpretations rather than communication. Most of the times, people showcase that they ‘do not care’ of who stays in their life and who does not. Is that really the reality?  I have seen people who first pick up the stance of moving away from someone moving around them with a grumpy face- day and night. They would suddenly become conscious of their words, their manners, their presence and let the other person know that “I do not care about you.” The receiver of bad fate would cry, sulk and pulp in sadness showing their part of “I care of your behaviour and it is hurting me”. Don’t you think that a sord...
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Are you Seeing the World with a One-Sided Vision?

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What happens when you see the world with one eye? I am not talking about the third eye. We fail at recognizing people and their real selves with both eyes. The third eye can’t save us in any manner. But then, what happens when you see the world with just one eye open? Like just one eye open. Physics has suggested. Primary class physics. Not alpha, beta, gamma physics. Primary physics. It has suggested that looking at things with one eye has a limited harm. It just causes the ‘loss of binoucular vision’ and your sense and ‘depth of perception’ gets compromised. Although, I have tried once judging myself, what happens when I look at one eye open. The most part that I want to see is visible. I can see at my front, I can see where I am walking and going. However, one of the sides goes missing. I can handle that unless I have to ‘interpret the scene’ and not ‘just’ look at it. Making decisions and walking on the pavement of one-sided stories can lead you straight to a pothole. Watchin...
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Accept the Change

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Unless you Accept the Change. You will never be able to Become the Change. We often get fiddled when our relationship dynamics change. That destroys us inside out... To lose a close person or realise they are not comfortable being around you anymore. Realising you are not their first priority or they won't choose you over others.  That hurts. Yes.  But we often amplify our pain by considering that this is permanent and things will never be the same anymore. You need to accept the change of behaviour and circumstances that life has brought on your platter. Taste it. if you won't taste it, how would you know whether it is up to your choices or not?  And once you know it doesn't suit you, maybe it's less salty or more bitter.  Add whatever flavour you wish to keep it going on. That new flavour can be departure, a momentary gap in the relationship or a gift to renew the bond.  Unless you accept the change. How do you plan to change what you don't like.  Denial ...
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