Writing is an important medium of communication that has been in
existence for thousands of years. A lot of what we know about the world and
about ourselves is because someone at some point in time decided to record the
truth. Whether it was early human beings leaving the details of their seemingly
mundane human life on walls of damp & dark caves in form of sketches and
hand prints.
Or poets, writers, artists in the long lineage of creative human
beings who decided to explore human emotions and the effect of human emotions
on relationships, nature and universe. Everyone, Shakespeare, Keats, Russel,
Kabir Das, Shankaracharya, Tulsidas, Lao Tzu, Mandela, Wordsworth, Premchand,
Bukowski, Abaza, Van Gogh, Bakshi, Spielberg and others have given us troves of
sometimes abstract yet profoundly meaningful words that have the power to move
even the most inertial mind.
We're all wonderful creatures who have been blessed with the same
ability to conceive truth from the deepest and darkest places in our mind. You
and me have the ability to move others and sometimes more importantly move
ourselves to higher & higher orbits of selfless creation. We are all part
of a big family tree that can join words to create a string of words that as
some say can defeat the blunt force of swords.
Yet we sometimes fail to recognize this great innate ability, it's
our duty to create in any way we can. We've to remind ourselves, almost daily,
like a Hippocratic Oath for creators that we will not falter even if faced with
the worst of blocks of non-creativity. Here is my humble oath in an attempt to
keep the fire lit:
- I'll put my conscious mind in unknown places and surround myself with unknown
situations.
- I'll always try
to provide a new point of view that shatters the existing clichés and
definitions.
- I'll always look
for the bare naked truth within me and under no circumstances be afraid of
self-revelations that might arise.
- I'll always
remain humble to other human beings as they are the source of inspiration
and I'm just a one spoke in the large family that resides on Earth.
- I'll always keep
creating as it is my sacred duty for every breath holds the potential to move
me to a higher emotional state.
Since I'm just a novice this oath is not complete and I would hopefully keep adding to it as I progress.
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