What's life?
I'd say it's the battle against death and time. People die at a very high rate as time goes and for that reason, personally, I decided to do more with my life now that I have the opportunity to.
It's not always easy trying to be somebody you're not especially when you do something just because everyone else is doing it. But, it could turn out fun and you could develop a passion for it.
One thing I feel like this towards is writing.
Writing has helped me convey my feelings that I thought were ineffable. I've become a consistent writer, poet and I get the inspiration from anything and everything around me.
I once wrote a poem about how people easily get influenced by what they listen to.
I hope you enjoy reading it.
This poem got a lot of recognition and for that reason alone, I decided to explore and keep writing.
At some point, it all started getting plastic. I started writing because I knew that there was always someone who wanted to see it, someone who I wanted to tailor my work to. This made inspiration hard to come by especially since I wasn't really thinking about myself anymore.
After some time, I took a break and one day, someone asked me why I i stopped writing. I explained what happened and she asked me this question;
"How do you feel?"
Those words stuck to me like a tattoo and from then, I knew exactly what I needed to do.
I needed to up my game and write things exactly the way I feel and only hope that it resonates with how others feel too. After all, I'm the writer and I started writing for me, myself and I.
This didn't make things automatically easier though, I still found myself filled with different thoughts on what next to write about and then, I decided on something.
I decided that every day of my life, I would always pick out one key thing I'd learnt, every, single, day.
I usually write 2 to 3 articles in a spot so that I don't have to worry about writing for the next 2 to three days but I felt I was being hasty.
I needed to take things slow and one step at a time. Eventually, I wrote again, the first tlme after a long while.
Here's the poem I wrote;
Apart from how short this poem is, you'd notice a significant difference in my approach.
I no longer just look for words to fill in the gap, I fill in the needed words.
My writing has improved and I'm grateful as I want to take on greater tasks and write more diverse and intricate poems and articles.
The poem, in short, highlights my personal growth - the growth I experienced from realising to take things one step at a time and the growth that comes from having composure even when under pressure.
I'm no star but at the moment I stopped writing, I felt like an artiste that needed to deliver a masterpiece everytime regardless of his mental and emotional struggle and so for this reason, there was no room for complacency on my part.
I not only expanded my writing techniques, I started writing about certain values, like love, endurance, patience, in essence, things that are often neglected by the world today.
There was a particular write-up I composed based on family. Personally, it was okay but what made it to captivate the attention of my audience was the fact that it was something that had happened to the majority of them, the majority of us.
Here's the write-up;
The write-up highlights the struggle people face in a bid to leave a mark, in a bid to succeed, in a bid to be.... special. I know most readers resonate with the write-up and that's one thing I learnt as part of my uprising.
I didn't need to just tailor it to the needs of my audience. As a human, I've already established a common ground with them as I in, maybe not all, but, most of the problems common to us.
That makes it easier for me to actually write something that would definitely be of great help to those whom it may concern.
MY DREAM.
I want to keep writing, I want to keep doing this, although it's not a profession that seems to be of high recognition in my country, I do think writing could do bits.
I'd love to explore job opportunities relating to writing, although I'm a student, I already have a passion for it.
Here's something we all need to realise.
As time goes by, I'm slowly realising how most, if not all of us, choose paths that our family or community want for us. We no longer follow our dreams as we're told it's a waste of time, when we could be so much more, they say.
I'm here, serving as a reminder, that with your dream, only with your dream could you reach heights unfathomable even by you.
And if the going gets tough, remember the words of Samuel Beckett;
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Thanks for listening to my story.
