My Essays

My typical essays till last year, maybe even a couple of months back were of the same old boring standard form.

Boring title

Definition of the thing

Problems it has or had or it could have

What might have been, what could have been, what should be

With everyone's cooperation, I'm sure it will be a success!!!

I was so terribly bored writing these. The same dead tone, try reading between the lines, there's no emotion, no real interest in it, there's Nothing.

I was happy with them though, they served their purpose, in fact they served me pretty well and got me (lousy, worthless) marks. I didn't even know what I was missing.

(I'm bored, I'm wrapping it up) I wrote an essay for fun (contrasting in nature to my previous ones), my mother thought it wasn't me, she thought it was really really good, so I think to myself Hmmm...

Then I read some of Zarin's and Nazrin's work, they used words that only their species of dictionary gobblers would understand but beyond that they wrote informally, like they were talking to the person who might read it and really connecting (I dont care if that sounds cliche) with them. Like they actually meant every word of what they wrote and most importantly like they were having fun.

They write crazy well, but the sad part is that (according to me anyway) their work gets praised to high heaven for the wrong things, ok, that't not right, their vocab deserves praise too.. but so does their language, doesn't anyone care about anything other than the mysterious and fascinating five-syllable words??! Sheeesh!

Anyway, having seen that and clearing my head of the fog that was pumped in there by my schooling in the previous years and also acknowledging the fact that I could write like that (minus the big words), I started enjoying writing.

(yeah maybe I'm not wrapping up after all)

Now I write for fun. I don't write like the twins (Nazrin, Zarin), I don't write in the way the school taught me, I write the way I feel like writing. My writing now finally unique, like I had claimed to be. (YAY)

That is not to say I'm some great literary genius or anything. What I make these days is BIZARRE! Often not making much sense, unconnected, skipping details in some areas and going into crazy details in others. But I have soo sooo soooooo much fun just writing. On rare occasions though, these bizarre things actually turn out well, or so my parents and friends tell me, and frankly that's all that matters.

I'll probably put up some of my crazy crap up here. Who knows, you might actually like it.