Writing is like living a life. You have your glory moments and other times it’s just hard work at its best. Sometimes a brilliant thought flows through the mind like honey and other times it just takes ages to even get a sentence on the page. There is an age old adage we all have heard; which just says patience is virtue. Yet the patience is like that elusive 'A' in the grade reports of our lives. We all love straight A's yet there are some C's that matter a lot and patience plays an important role in each of these. This is my post dedicated to those C's that help us move on through our daily grind called life.
The First C
Confusion is a word dreaded by most. It’s a word that unfortunately carries with itself all the wrong connotations. Yet it could be the best friend you might ever have! Confusion points to all possibilities surrounding a situation we are part of. It opens up a world of possibilities that exist. Confusion also acts as a catalyst that fastens the thought process. It inspires us to look for a solution. Yet it asks for patience in looking at all those possibilities floating around us. So perhaps confusion is a solution book right in front of us, just waiting for us to patiently read it and give it a thought.
The Second C
Man is a social animal and the most important form of social interaction is communication. All of us communicate each and every day to people around us. But perhaps the most important communication is with you. That seems to lack most of the times in our lives. We all are so engrossed with communications bombarded at us by the outside world that the inside world loses its voice. Similarly in writing I need to communicate with myself. I need to tell my mind to lock onto a few thoughts while leave the others for a while. Perhaps zeroing in on the target idea within my mind opens doors for me to hear my voice. In a way writing is talking to myself and taking notes of my talks with myself at the same time! That's sounded weird but did come out beautiful in writing!
The Third C
The world is striving for clarity whether in life or business, clarity is valued a lot. Yet it is so elusive especially when I begin to write a post anytime! While trying to write the post I had an idea which I might have toiled throughout the day. But still I may not be clear on what to write when I begin. Hence begins the struggle between confusion and clarity. Yet I have to realize clarity comes one step at a time. The more I write the more clear I am about the overall theme of the post. So patience is the key while writing. Sometimes clarity comes in the form of a revelation but most of the times it comes through hard work. Perhaps when you work hard enough revelations are just a reminder that you're on the right track.
So whenever in confusion, communicate to yourself to achieve the clarity. But within all these C's let us throw a P as well, patience (of course it is our grade 'A').
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