Jus get started!

As everyone in the world of blogging, I too had my share of apprehensions about creating my blogsite. My dearest friend kept pushing me (thanks to her! It may well be the reason why you are reading this). I din know how to start, where to start and when to start. As usual, swalpa starting problem!! [wink] But I had to do it. I cleared my table. Sharpened my pencil. Started jotting (a rough work before I could put it on!). Now because it was the first one I had to sneak up on my thought, the flow and look at it from several angles.

Not knowing when or how to begin is a problem we’re all quite familiar with. Be it any just anything that you aspire to do, taking the first step is the most difficult aspect of any creative task. Somewhat sardonically, it has to be admitted! It’s a declaration of intent and getting started can feel like the end of a period of free and endless thinking. Giving shape and form to ideas and thoughts can feel like you are selling them short or limiting them in some way that feels uncomfortable. You have your own fears of being accepted by the audience of interest. You dont really know how well people could receive you. The fear of rejection is all that a man cannot take and hence the “starting problem”, “oh! What-if” or “Oh! What-if-not” kinds.

Now as I say this, I get a lil nostalgic. I still remember the day I submitted my first painting. The jitters I had when I enacted my first role as a child artist. The trembling voice with which I sang the first song. My faltering footsteps of the first dance to the tune of “merry-go-round-the-mulberry-bush”. I remember the first few lines of the poem I scribbled. Or as with most of us, it could be the first job interview we have all given, the boy/girl that we have or have wanted to propose [wink].Everything that you wanna do and have done has to have or has had its “first”. You jus gotta make the move. I do agree that it needs a vital mental and emotional preparation. Some times you tackle the most difficult and challenging problem first. Usually this is coz you have already sussed out how to solve it, or you’re so bursting with energy and excitement that you need something major to attack and venture on! Your instincts and creative intelligence shall definitely help at some point.

My dear friend, as you read this, I only have to say that, “If you have an urge to do that ‘something’ in the corner of your heart, push for it”. You must have your adrenaline rushing. Each one of us has a list of “1000 things to do before we die”. But only a few succeed in doing them all for they either do not know where to begin or too bothered about what-will-others-think-about-me. Seems like tats a syndrome! Sometimes you gotta be a dare devil. Have the I-Don’t-care-what-the-world-thinks-about-me attitude. After all you cannot impress everyone on this earth. N mind you, you gotta live your life. Have no apologies for the vanities. ‘Just-Do-It’. For its only one life you have to realize your dreams. We can’t leave our lives in the ‘Fill-in-the-blanks’ state. There are often some things left undone, some words left unsaid, some feelings left unexpressed, some dreams left unrealized about which we crib and feel sorry about and end up thinking at the later part of your life, “if-only-I-said-it”, “if-only-I-did-it”. Why have regrets? Wake up and do it. Ask questions. Apart from asking ‘why’, ask ‘why-not’. Start anywhere. But start now. Right here. Right now. No excuses. No prevarication.

Unleash…”U”! Get set and Go! Rock on! All the best!! [Thumbs up]