If I could write a book…

At first I thought writing is difficult and transpiring my heart and soul into words require certain degree of skills and much grasp of words with wide choices and usage of vocabulary. However, lately I have been reading a lot of books from different kind of authors namely Andrea Levy, LD Landsland, Margaret Drabble and Kim Erchlin and I found out that each one of them have different styles and different ways of expressing themselves through words. They don’t have a fixed style of writing or what can be considered as a blue print of a good writing. It gives me much relieve and in a way it was liberating because now I can focus on choosing my own way to express myself the best way possible without being misunderstood (if possible).

If you were to ask me who was the writer that I found most influencing, my answer would be Paulo Coelho. He can be direct and mysterious depending on how he wanted the subject to be felt by readers. I found his directness very spot on. You can understand it as if you were living it word per word and just like that you become the subject that he was talking about. Having read a good book and a book that becomes you is something different because a book that becomes you is what everyone is looking for since whatever we read we understand it much because it is a reflection of our own soul. It is us expressed in words that sometimes can only find its way out after we found it spelled right in front of our eyes.

I used to tell myself and friends including hubby that if I could prescribe book as a medicine, I would carefully choose for each patient who needs treatment, a book that specifically tackle their problems. It is because sometimes when problems weigh us down, what we need the most is a solution that we never thought of unless we find a good book that can point us to the right direction. That itself will cure a patient.

Of all the careers in the world I must say I envy writers the most. If there is one thing that stood the test of time, that would be a book. A book you have written will be passed from generation to generation and at some point it can be made as a reference to the youngsters. The most important of all is that a book will carry all the wisdom you gather in your lifetime to be readily transferred to those who have time to immerse and learn from it.

With this knowledge, I harbor the thoughts of keeping on writing pieces after pieces until one day perhaps I can find the right pieces to be presented as a whole as a book. If not for the purpose of publishing at least it would reach my goal to put my mind into a mini book for my own keeping.

I realized that much of the good writer spends a lot of their time in researching about their subject before putting it into words and presented it in a book. It can be from months to years before the subject can be fully explored and materialized into a book.

I really would love to have the knack for writing but I also believe like everything else in this world, if we try hard enough and practice incessantly, writing can also become a second nature.

In other words, I would love to toy with the idea of one day becoming an excellent writer and that thought alone gives me something to look forward to in the future. You know like having goals and wants. It is like counting your blessings to come??

What about you? What do you aspire to be in the future apart from having a job to make a living?

Of course like you I have many and I have not forgotten any of it. Let us keep on working for it. One by one, let us make it happen. Okay??