My First.... My self.... On writing....

My friends always persuaded me to write something. I always used to come up with a reason not to. So finally when one of my friends recently asked me to write something, I thought since I have such well cooked thoughts about not writing why dont I put them on a piece of paper.

I always used to think writing is for people smarter then me. This thought was like a bush in deep waters. Eventually other small little thoughts used to get entangled in this one thought and it became so huge, that it started affecting my day to day writing of emails too. I always used to think "I cannot write good" "I cannot write sensible stuff". To add to this was a comment made by one of my friend once when she read what I had written. She said "you write as if you talk. THis is not how you write. There are rules." All I had to was to hear this and thats it. My last piece of motivation was shattered, the last hole from which light entered was covered. It was utter darkness. I always read people and I used to tell myself when some of the most simple writing authors like Robin Sharma used to be so successful, how is it that these guys can say such simple things and be so successful? How is it that they lay out a few golden rules which are basically day to day thoughts that you completely ignore become life changing cues for some?

Recently as I said earlier, I was talking to this friend of mine, who motivated me to write. She said all this rules of writing is useless when it comes to blogging. Blogging is for people to get things out of system. Its not for you to publish. Its for you to tell others how you think. But yes, if you are going to think what other will think about you based on what you've written, you will never be able to express yourself. Thats when I realised something. THis is so very true for me in my day to day life as well. The way I think of how would people think when they read what I have written, this is the same way I think about people's reaction when I behave with them. This struck me so hard that I decided to write going against my town limiting beliefs. And now that I am writing, I feel it as if I have been able to create an outlet to my heart. It really feels good to write and I owe this feeling to my friend. Moreover I have also realised its the simple things that comes out do actually come out from the heart. WHen it becomes complex, you have to understand it is only when you have "processed" your simple thoughts. I guess this is also what authors like RObin Sharma and Stephen COvey always wanted us to realise.