Friday, May 24, 2013

So you think you can Write?

"I woke up and i saw the fan turning and my mom was screaming out of her voice downstairs to wake me up. And i realized, It was all Just a dream!!". Dude, seriously? You write some romantic tragedy or a fairy tale fantasy and in the end, neither does she die, nor were the elves real and It was all just a dream!! I was as young as 4 to 5 years old since I've been listening to, and reading stories like these. What people write :  Usually they start off with the type of writing which involves the so called "solving the mysteries of journey called life". Very sophisticated stuff I tell you. Everyone would have tried their part in this kinda writing. You write it and read it a couple of times and input all aspects of your thoughts into it. You'll literally love the stuff. Now, you walk behind them asking your friends to read 'em. The baffled friends (whom you are ridiculously torturing right now) would get nothing out off it and you sit along explaining the depth of each and every phrase in it. Its embarasing but, you dont care. You feel content for letting out all the philosophy you've piled in yourself for years on to the papers.
 There are few i would love to share. The ones which my friends wrote about.
 Dennis, he wrote about the ever famous topic 'What if there was another earth!'. Planets, universe and a hell lot of aliens were always in vogue while we were in high school. Every english essay question was about 'A UFO went past by your house last night. Write a brief diary entry on what you experienced'. English exams always made us think and express on views that involved things we havent seen. 'Letter to the pen friend explaining your Holi celebration'. We'all know Its a fact that none of us actually had a pen friend whom we would talk about our Holi celebrations to. Tanya's was even better. She dint wanna be grammatically wrong and chose to write a poem. As she was writing it she kept making intentional mistakes in it. "It wouldnt look like a poem after all if the grammar is proper", she said. I back her on that. Poems never were written in good english. Why dont they just write poems with good grammar? Talking of which, i realized Karthik who wrote a poem with the help of a dictionary. His poem was more like an Alliteration overdose! Opens the dictionary to the letter S - section, and writes a few lines overloaded with words with S. And then continued the same with few other letters. To be honest, that was the most ridiculous stuff i'd read in my whole life. Eric wrote about how much he loved his mom and hated his brother. That was always there. Showering love and hatred to parents. Its not that fun to read but, it is the world's best piece of literature for the parents. "Beta! Come here. Read out what you wrote about mom to Shantanu Uncle! Aloud! ". Indian Parents, i tell you.
 Over coffee, meeting up with all my friends talking about things we started writing with. I dont really remember what i started writing about. Asked mom about it and she lets me know that there were few old books of mine up stairs. Opened them up. Old note books, assignments and stuffs. Searched for English Vacation Assignment. Story writing assignment. Colourful paper! Nice!
 This is how it went.. Started off with the fantasy land stuff, room filled with Milkybar and the chocolate factory. How much i love my parents for it. And in the end, " "I woke up and i saw the fan turning and my mom was screaming out of her voice downstairs to wake me up. And i realized, It was all Just a dream!!"
 THE END!

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