NEVER BE ME!
A small piece of advice or whatever you feel.
Sometimes when I read articles written on Medium I feel that either you need to be someone knowledgeable like anything , or someone who’s had many heartbreaks or experiences about love or anything else for that matter. I am someone who does not have both. But yet I am here.. Blabbering something in this platform which probably makes no sense.
I took up English for my further studies which I feel now is probably might be the dumbest decision I ever took in my life.. I wanted to take up Political Science but my family wanted me to study English for some particular reason.. They say “that the amount of scope you have in English isn’t likr the amount of scope you’ve got in any other subject.” And at that time I believed it. They say it even today. But the only difference is that now I’ve had a reality check now.. So since I’m a student of English I’ve technically become someone who is expected to be at the library the whole day keeping my head buried in books the all the time. But frankly speaking, I hate reading. Yeah! It sounds absurd but it’s true.
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Just keep me even in front of a 15 pages book for a while and you’ll see that I’m already half asleep when I’m on the tenth page. And then I found Medium..
When I first opened an account on Medium I started exploring. I came across many kind of contents and many writers but I found it too complex to understand their works. And then one day I found one such writer who wrote things that quite resonated with my current state. I followed that writer and started reading their work regularly whenever they posted. It felt good.. It felt like “Yeah I’m not really stupid!” But then…
I realized something. That they’re writing this good, because they have tried everything they can. They came out of their comfort zone, worked hard, failed, got up, tried again.. Some of them I feel have won a lot in life, some are winning and some like me do not even try. Because for me, I have fixed something in my mind ‘ONE FAILURE= LIFE OVER. No second chance. If you don’t touch the sky in the first attempt you’re out. That’s it.
So whosoever finds this piece of writing just understand one thing ‘Never ever be like me.’ As Horace Walpole once mentioned in one of his epistolary novels “ I write to you because I have nothing to do. I end because I have nothing to say.”
Well I too am doing the similar thing. I’m writing on medium because there’s nothing else to do and now I end because what’s there to even talk about.
