One of my notable plans for 2021- of which I haven't spoken of to anybody other than few close people- was this writing project that I've been aiming at since 2 years ago. If you write regularly then you are already a writer. However, as soon as you start identifying yourself as one, you unintentionally set up to go through frequent writer blocks and painful blankness, until you start to question what makes you qualified for such position to begin with! Why would anybody refer to you as a writer for that matter?! At least, this is what went on for me. For this reason, I find myself again reminded with, why labels usually constrain more than they do orient us. Recently I came across this very hope inducing advice from one of my highly respected thinkers of our modern time, Dr. Jordan Peterson. Any words I could ever construct to express how much of a motivating as well as a calming role he's played for me during this lockdown, would be an understatement! So let's refle...
I hate waiting! I've always have. Even though I made people wait throughout my life which I'm deeply remorseful for. Just how I've been recently told by a strangely loyal visitor of my blog that they've been waiting for me to post for the longest. First of all, I'm still surprised that anybody would actually wait for this blog to get updated. But since I've been learning and training myself to accept compliments and flattery, I think that's super cool and I appreciate their waiting! Though I must clarify the following; it's not that I haven't written anything on this blog since July, it's just that whatever I wrote didn't make it to the publication thus far. It all remained in the drafts section or got sent down to the bin. Like I do with most of my writing. With that being said, I think I must publish this post this time whether it ends up decent or utter nonsense. For I know I am not the only person who's agonizingly going through thi...
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