Creative Writing: The Rebel’s Cause

Ever since we’re born, writing holds a very important part in our lives and the lives of those around us. Remember (okay maybe we don’t but can visualise it anyway) how our mothers try teaching us small words even when we haven’t learned to walk; how the first word we say is a matter of great pride and achievement for our ‘ma’, ‘papa’ ‘dadi’, ‘nani’ – or whoever that word represents in our family; how the first word we say becomes a moment of historic significance for our parents, who quickly record its exact date and time in our well-preserved baby books.

By the time we leave the comfort of our homes and enter school, we have already mastered the spoken word and are ready to embrace the art of writing. We start with our ABCs of course, and then gradually, in the first four or five formative years of our cognitive minds’ development, we embark on the tiresome journey of learning as we deftly move – from letters to words, from words to sentences, from sentences to paragraphs – until we are ready to form our own discourses.

No matter how significant our writings may seem to others, in our world they are extremely special. They are like our babies. After all, we’re the ones who create them, fight all odds (read distractions) to bring them into this world, and rely on them almost completely to keep our name alive long after we’ve passed on.