Forget about Writing or Blogging, I was
one of those who never took an extra paper in the examinations throughout my
academic years. During exams, In exam halls my friends and all other
students used to say “Sir, Paper” or “Madam, Paper” I used to wonder a lot!
Yeh
log itna kya likhte hain…mera to sabkuch pahele jitna paper sheet mila
tha ushi mein ho gaya…I really used to say to myself. Sometime I used to feel
bad about it also.
Again I was the one who would always
leave “the essay writing part” in every language papers be it in English, Odia
(My mother Tongue) or Hindi. And you
know what “Long answer type questions” were my biggest enemies in every
subject. It was not because I was bad in learning or memorizing them but I was
very slow in writing. So even if I knew answers I used to find it difficult to
write it. So I used to find ways to shorten the answers…I mean making long
sentences small…etc. some writing tricks - You know - which would help me. And it was working
also because I used to score good marks. Maybe that’s the reason I was a bright
kid even though I had writing problems.
So writing was never my strength.
However I don’t know when I started reading books. Since my childhood I have always been an
avid reader. My favorite past time was only reading books. That’s the reason perhaps by my early teens I
was quite fair in reading all kinds of books...I mean Novels, Thrillers,
fictions or Non-Fictions…everything.
The only kind of writing I used to like
was “Noting down things in my dairy that
I used to feel good about while reading books, magazine…etc” I have quite a lot
of dairies where one will find many thing collected over the years.
Like any other academically bright
student, my dream was also to become a doctor or an engineer. However destiny
had some other plans. I became a student of Chemistry. In my college days there
were so many extracurricular activities were conducted. Once there was an Essay Competition in English and the
Topic was “Democracy is not suited to
Genius of Indian People” which was declared an hour before. I had an essay
book where the same topic was there. So I felt let me read it and take part in
the competition.
I was with the pen and paper inside the
classroom.
OH!!! My Good God!!! Let me tell you
honestly…I couldn’t recall a word I had read in that essay book.
I was supposed to leave it blank…when
the invigilator looked at me and perhaps understood my situation. Then he
said…write whatever you feel like. I know you can do it.
Student Union Elections had just
completed before then in our College. Few days before that I had gone to an
election Rally by OUR Ex PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee. So I started writing what I felt about elections.
You know what…I stood second in it. My
HOD (Head Of The Department) said me that had my vocabulary been strong, with that idea I would have
bagged first.
That was the first achievement of my writing
skill that also taught me Originality
always speaks best about your idea. That
motivated me the most. I took part in many competitions after that and got some
success also.
Those days I was preparing for various
Banking Examinations as well as Civil services. I used read many magazines
particularly “CSR – Competition Success Review” for current affairs. One day I
saw an ESSAY Contest in CSR. I wrote on it and stood First Runners up. My photo
was printed in it and you can understand the euphoric world I was in!!!
In 2005 in Super Brain Super Personality
contests in CSR…When I won “Miss Intellectual of the Month” in CSR and my Essay
was published in it….maybe that was the final point when I realized that “I can
write”.
But after that I joined a job in a
private sector bank and I was really doing fantastic in it. Life was cool. But for
a family compulsion I had to leave that job at the pick of my career.
De-motivated, frustrated…I again tried
to find solace in Books.
That was the time also…when I tried to
write my views in various things that used to affect me or appeal me in my dairy.
While surfing net, I used to log in into
every site…to see if they have a platform to share my views. Wherever it was
possible I used to share my opinion as comments.
One fine day I landed in an Online News/Media
portal. I wrote few articles in that regarding women issue. However I was frightened
by the trolls in it and I stopped writing in it.
Then I landed in Speaking Tree – a free spiritual
blogging site of Times of India.
That was something life changing. I realized “I find maximum peace of Mind when
I write”. Writing became a kind of stress buster for me.
In the mean time A Friend asked me to
have a “BLOG” of my own in blogger. I searched for it and years back I had this
blog registered in my name but never wrote anything in it.
Someone said me about “Blogadda” as
well. I signed in it perhaps two years back but I never knew “how to get
connected with it with my write ups”
In May 2015, one fine day (I may say coincidentally or destiny has its own way of doing things)
I tried “trial and error method” to participate in a contest. (Do I need to say that I’m little less techno
savvy?)
OMG!! Everything was right The Blog was
approved!! That’s how I stepped into the Blogging World.
Let me say the best thing that actually
attracted my eyes to have an account with Blogadda was WOW- Write Over Weekend
activity. I can’t say the kind of Happiness I get with every WOW badge!! I
simply love it like anything!!
It was just over few weeks of my
association with Blogadda when participated in the #LiveLodgycal contest with Renault in association with BlogAdda to get a chance to be a part of the #LiveLodgycal Drive in Goa.
And to my utter surprise I was one among the five winners.
Fully excited!! Top of the world!! Perhaps
“A beginners Luck” you can say. But that actually changed my total prospective
about blogging.
Since then “Blogging has become itself a
Celebration for me”. It’s not only about writing only but finding new truths,
new friends, new trends, new lessons to be learnt and new wisdom to be fathomed with every passing day.
After that every post became a
celebration for me. Every comment became a celebration. Each vote made me
dance. Each new friend made me feel special.
It
also made me land into the world of some awesome bloggers and their ideas. As I
read their blogs, it made me feel “what I was missing out to read all these
years!!”.
Let me say you…while reading the other
bloggers ideas and posts, I really found answers to too many of my “unspoken
questions” as well. I never knew…it’s the “OCEAN OF WISDOM” in the virtual
world. Some of them were so much penetrating into my mind that they changed my out
dated prospective about many things as well.
Then the regular communication with
Blogadda…I must say Team Blogadda treats every blogger with utmost specialty
and sincerity. I guess… No one can match
this art!! I simply love it!!
Happiness, new things, new ideas, new
friends, new excitements…what else. A complete world in itself. What should I call
it?? A festival…right!!!
Like everyone, my life also has been a
roller coaster ride. I didn’t know when I had stepped into the path that
destiny had fixed for me….WRITING AND BLOGGING. I don’t know what more exciting
things I am going to unravel in future!!! I’m at a point…totally clueless about
the destination of this journey…and I’m really delighted about it.
But as I look back the path I trailed so
far…The journey has been a Celebration in Itself. At a regular hiatus, with
lovely goodies of happiness and gifts of wisdom, Destiny has asserted itself every
time that “Tina…You are In the Right Path…I guess!!!” That makes me feel yes #IAmABlogger
Though I never believed it, but my
journey as a Writer or a Blogger so far I feel best defined by the words of
wisdom…”It’s not the Destination but the Journey that matters most”
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