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| I feel most inspired to write when on aflight, when I feel a bit "above the nuances of mundane life" Pic clicked with a Samsung S3 on the way from Stockholm to Krakow in Oct 2013. |
People should write. You are excused if you
are handicapped at expressing yourself. If you are bad with words. Or if you
have an uninteresting life. But too many people out there lead tremendously
interesting lives, are good with words, have interesting opinions, and yet fail
to put them down somewhere. And those thoughts are just blown away and
forgotten, lost to oblivion, to laziness perhaps.
A lot of what we write stays on forever,
especially in the age of electronic media and unlimited zeta-bytes of storage. I do not know if it happens with everyone, but I have been deeply influenced so many times by things I have
read, sometimes written by people who are not necessarily famous authors. Sometimes
anonymous quotes have inspired me. Random writings have made me think. General
words on the internet have forced me to re-think. Blogs have made me want to do
things. Books have changed the way I have viewed life, or at least some parts
of life. Travelogues have made me want to travel. Life narrations have made me
not want to go into jobs I would have sucked at anyway.
So when we read something that influences
us, enriches us, rekindles thoughts within us, gives us something that we did
not have, isn’t it fair to give back something to the world in return, some
small portion of our lives that may someday enrich someone else? Why then does
everyone not blog? Or at least write in some forum? Or opine in some way to the
world?
People who travel should write about their
travel, a lot of people who do not have the fortune to see the world through their
words. People who are artistic should express their passion for their art, a
lot of people (like me) without the instinctive flair on a canvas, on an
instrument or some other place would love to know what it feels like to possess
that talent. People who live extra-ordinary lives, people who do crazy things
or even just interesting things, should write about those experiences. I am sure we
all do something extra ordinary in our lives. Or think something that nobody
else can imagine. Is it too much to just pen it down? Maybe nobody will ever read
it. Maybe it will be forever engraved in the mind of your great grandson who
never got to meet you. Maybe it will influence someone in some far away country
(or planet, commercial interplanetary travel will be a reality in the next
generation). We underestimate the power of words. We underestimate
the interesting lives we all lead. We underestimate ourselves.
Saw this on my ex-CEO’s blog (who
interestingly lives an interesting life and writes about it :) )
“Earn respect not wealth; touch lives not
gold; inspire confidence not fear; focus on people’s hearts not their ranks”
