This is my first ever post here at Writer Babu and sitting in front of my system, i was undecided on the topic i would write on till two minutes ago. But the dire need to exercise my writing muscles got me restless and right then the tag line of the site threw a clue. It goes like Keep writing..writing is fun..I know it is fun, it is therapeutic; so do all of you writing here or at any other place.
In this post i would like to share how i feel when i write, when i re-read a freshly written article or blog, when i find someone who can understand the words written by me exactly the way i meant them, even better is when someone can also relate to the sentiments expressed as passionately. Like now i am writing this post, hoping that one of you, some of you, all of you will read it and say "Wow, i feel exactly the same way."
Assuming that most of us are over with "Writing is cool, let's write phase," i think writing for us is a form of expression, which is denied to us many a times for various reasons, a medium to tell the readers- look we have an opinion and the ability to voice it. All of us write for different reasons at different point of time in our lives. We all have thought of ourselves as the bard nursing a broken heart just by the expression of pain in words, a romantic having an edge over other lovers owing to the ability to make our beloved know their place in our lives, an activist doing his/her bit to bring in the revolution through burning words and optimistic suggestions,a person with superior intellect telling the less enlightened how it should be, a more experienced personality telling "what to do" and "how to do" of fields we think we know enough about.
Most importantly, i think we assume a different personality each time when we write on a new topic, a personality that is above and more than what we are in our daily lives. When we write with a sincere heart, we leave the veils and inhibitions, we do away with restrictions, we shun away the masks we wear in our daily lives for some time, we travel to distant realms with the power of our imagination, we feel free, we are exposed, we are naked to our souls which can then tell what it wants without fear, which can connect to the other naked souls.
I don't keep sharing things i wrote above everyday when i am acting like one of the creatures of habit, when i am not thinking, when i am merely existing. But it is at moments like this that i feel some air pumping into my lungs, i feel alive and those of us who write more regularly are so in love with the feeling of being alive that they write the moment they feel their soul is calling to them. The desire is very urgent, almost like the need to masturbate. And it is only when we see those emotions transformed to words that we feel at ease. Like i am feeling now.
" They brim at the surface
But not overflowing.
Pouring them is the only relief- the words."
