Soul Search

Amidst a busy schedule I find myself free for a day. Suddenly a new role, a higher post and most of my time is spent on delegating work and not really doing. First I enjoyed, then tried to get organized and now in search of what next…

Free internet and free time is an amazing combination you know! Reading multiple articles, letters, books and blogs, I am here to wake the writer in me. Yes, that’s write I mean that’s right I am a writer too. I accidentally started off as a writer and once I published few of my pieces (I am not counting my journalistic stories here) and heard some wonderful words from the close ones, I am thinking of becoming a full-fledged writer. Write a book of one story or a compilation of short stories. So here I am again, trying to kindle the story teller in me.

I know I have had a few milestones in my life like winning an individual championship when in high school, winning accolades in debate competitions, flunking in my undergraduate for the first time and topping my college in Post-graduation. The last one was certainly a topping… like the cherry on top. As once you reach the top, you get a better view of life. Looking back and looking down, you look at a different world altogether. It’s something like getting addicted to a drug. You stop imagining your life without it. And success is addictive I say.  

So… after my studies I faced the real world and my next set of milestones started. First job and then the job hopping. First resignation and multiple to follow. Until I landed in my dream job as a crime reporter. After I quit my dream job (because it couldn’t pay me well), my life has hit a stagnated period. Four years and more, I never realized when the cherry toppled down and dwindled all the way down. I got a car, a husband and a mother-in-law too, a new life but the goal remains lost.

Working for just another IT company today doing a routine job and comfortable in life. But the thrill of life is missing. It’s like running in a race and not sure if it’s a 100 meters run or a marathon. On a retrospection I see I have a calling and my calling is writing. I wouldn’t say I am a great writer but I know I am a wonderful storyteller. You should see the crowd when I recite the same old saans bahu stories or when the crime reporter in me wakes up. People crowd up and remember my stories even better than I do.

Here I lay my next milestone to be a writer. Those who have taken the time to read this I seek few more minutes of yours. Please drop in a comment or inbox me what do you think I should be writing about. You know me, you know my story. All that I seek is hold a mirror to me.