Writing is not easy. Especially when it comes to putting down your feelings on paper. The very first question that comes across is what you are going to write. Will it be the old tried and tested way of keeping a diary? And once you keep a diary, will you write your quotidian routine or will you pen down your life in metaphors and hyperboles? Or will you follow in the footsteps of the Byrons and the Wordsworths?

I have never been successful in maintaining a diary. Therefore, I tried to take the other route. Again, I faced a dilemma about writing poems or short stories. So, I did both. I won’t say that these endeavours of mine have borne great results, but I tried and it felt satisfying. I wrote some poems and a couple of short stories. I have always been a critic of my work and have never been fully satisfied with any of them. However, that has not stopped me from writing. My poems and stories are like a son or daughter to me; no matter the flaws and fallacies in them, they’ll always be close to my heart. When I find faults in my work, I try to improve them. I don’t get despondent over it.

What I’m trying to say is if you want to write, then write. Maybe you won’t get the perfection, but you’ll have the satisfaction of doing it. Don’t think about your grammar or your sentence structures. Learn from your mistakes and improve the second time and the time further and further and further. Eventually, you will see the perfection that you first wanted to see. The proudest moment in a parent’s life is when their child succeeds and becomes the best. You’ll definitely feel the pride.

I’m not going to edit this write-up. I’ll learn from the mistakes and will be back with a better one. Until then, keep writing.