#16 Why I do Reading and Writing? — My Secret

I was in class 12^th when I picked up 2 states by Chetan Bhagat. It took me around 20 days to read it. People often speak unfair about his writing style which I will never agree. Truly, he is the Shakespeare for the people like me. If I would have read Paulo Coelho or Jeffery Archer at that time, I would have never thought of writing anything. The second book, I read was what happens to good people when bad things happen by Robert A. Schuller. I read it thrice and still I read some chapters from it in order to feel better. Above all, I read writings on love, sex and women by Khushwant Singh and the night train at deoli and other stories by Ruskin Bond more than ten times.

            Today, I could see more than 100 e-books in my Kindle, and more than 50 paperbacks lying around me. I have lost incalculable number of books too. Once, I have recorded my reading speed. I found I read 2 books a week. And according to one survey, an average Indian reads one book a year. Even to cut a few number of trees, you need to sharp your axe. To write well, first you need to learn how to read well.  

            I was not a book lover nor had I born with some supernatural talents or whatever. In fact, my writing was ridiculous. But, I think we all are born to do something. There is something lying within us which requires to be manifested. I worked on my writing skills for continues 2 years on an average rate of 6-7 hours a day (it includes reading too). Now, writing a blog or any article is an easy task for me. A writer’s biggest challenge is how to fill a blank page. What you write, a junk or a masterpiece, will never matter, but you must write something in order to nurture your writing.

            You can read my blogs as my autobiography because I do not have any other things to share. Though, as people say, I have an old writing style, but I always try my best to help people through my articles. If my blogs help even one person I feel my purpose of writing is fulfilled.

Knowledge has always been my first desire, second writing, and at last, to share my knowledge with the others. Greatest of knowledge is the knowledge of self. You could find this knowledge in your own book. Reading books help me to find my better self. It is true that we do not know about our self. Rather than improving others, it is better to improve our-self first.   

 Every month, I spend half of my pocket money in purchasing books because, as I always say, investing in mind is far better than investing in banks. Aimless life is a helpless life. Without aims and goals, all holidays are boring. And honestly, from last few years, I’ve not experienced boredom. 

 ‘Age can never tell how mature you are and grades can never tell how intelligent you are,’ I recall what I read. Earning a living and how to live is entirely different. I do not have much achievement to share, but with an equally apt quote from wings of fire by A.P.J Abdul Kalam I want to share you what I’ve never lost:

“Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. When once gone no gold can buy them back again.”

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