Monday, February 16, 2009

Dilemma

I am not in a dilemma or stuck in any real life situation. I am in a dilemma about what to write in my blog. As a writer, I have a wide range of options. I can write reality, fiction, philosophy etc. If I write reality, it is very much like tight rope walking. I need to maintain a fine balance on what I write. So many funny things happens in our day to day life that we laugh our heads off but finally the joke happens to be on someone around you. When you have friends from different sets of people, it is not easy to please everyone. Some may enjoy what I write, some may feel offended. It is the words that I use that decide who is going to enjoy and who is going to be offended. A fact can be viewed differently by different people, but it is the words of a writer that make a reader to think in a particular direction. The very people who had enjoyed what I have written may feel offended if I state the same fact differently. It is all about vilifying or glorifying someone at the end. 
Writing fiction is bit easier than writing reality. You just have to write the real emotions you have ever felt, in a fictional scenario, but again to get that scene on paper, you need to feel it really. For me it is easy to write action, adventure as I try out different and crazy things and I could feel the thrill, fear and sometimes current flowing through my nerves every time I go out for an adventure. But I can't write action and adventure all the time, I myself get bored. I tried out romance too, but it did not work out. I felt like posting something on Valentine's day. A story had developed in my mind, I could visualise the scene, my protagonists were two birds, the symbollic lovebirds, but when it came to romance my thoughts became hazy. I felt I was not doing justice to their romance. I could not get the feeling from my heart, the words looked stale, then I realised, to write something about love, you need to be a romantic atleast if not in love. Then I decided to save the story for my lady love. I may get the right words when I may actually fall in love. But right now it is not my cup of coffee(I dislike tea). Now my mind says why don't you try some philosophy. I feel I am too young to write any philosophy, I still have to look at various aspects of life. I had developed some philosophy of my own and used to think myself as one of the great philosophers, but as I grew up I came to know I was wrong about many things and realised life is not that simple as it seems. One thing I learned is that I have to keep my philosophy to myself and that philosophy is not applicable to all as everyone grows up differently and in diferent conditions and everyone learns life his own way. So I am a bit of a dilettante as far as philosophy is concerned. Now I have decided to let my mood direct me on what I write and express so that I can discover various aspects of my personality when I look back into my writings. 

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