Reflections - A Journey Through Life

It glided like a ship sailing on a calm sea… Though for work and non-work I use commonly available pens, I still am a confirmed fountain-pen person. At home I keep even now a fountain pen which is not very costly but writes well. It gives me a special pleasure when the inked letters flow out of the tip of the nib joining into words and coming together to portray what I think. Perhaps while writing with my fountain pen, the writing itself changes, becomes more alive with fresh ideas, may be because of the pleasurable state of mind; innovation comes forth and takes shape on the blank paper. After more than five decades on this still beautiful earth, in the company of people, trying to communicate and failing many times, I now understand to some extent the challenge of communication. I think, form the words in my mind approximating my thought and speak out the words adding intonations on the way. But the words never could express exactly my thoughts. My friend or foe or casual ...

There are two types of writers—potter kind and spider kind. The spider kind of writers can spin a web out of their own saliva so to say, while the potter kinds are more dependent on their earthly experiences. One can’t say who are superior. A potter writer can very well transform her own experiences into a timeless saga while a spider kind may lose her way into an infertile land of imagination devoid of the life-juice of reality. On the other hand, a spider writer with a fair amount of research, may bring alive a forgotten era with her fertile imagination whereas the potter writer would stand helpless. In any case, to write a successful piece of literature you don’t have any other way than to bring alive the characters forcefully. Interestingly, if a writer paints a bygone era in all its lively colours, in spite of being set in the long past, the creation may surpass the time barrier and continue enchanting readers through ages. I suppose the reason lies in the success of depi...