The usual chatter has
already flooded mainstream literature so much so that a person sharing his
original experience seems to be a plagiarist. Every writer would have been
plagued with this haunting feeling of being original than the originality he or
she already has. I wonder how this feeling has come in the writers and readers.
I wonder how to get rid of it.
Today, I stared with a
plan to share my recent experiences. The experiences are very common to a
common man. Now, if this is the case, why will another common man read it or appreciate
it. While I was pondering over it, I realized that no one is interested in the
common experience. Though, the stories around the world are based on real life
events and are inspired by reality, they have something special about them. The
zeal to make the stories much more impacting on the minds of the readers have made
writers condescending about their creations.
Now, let me bring one more
experience in picture – the experience of nature. I believe that most of us are
inspired by nature and take it as inspiration and guide, in our imagination and
creation. If that is the true, then why the tone of stories are not aligned
with what nature creates. Suppose there is a male writer. His life is simple
and uptight. The same writer when inks a stories, then he does not write a
story where a writer is the protagonist. He and his readers deem his life
boring for a story. The protagonist, of his stories or plays, will pull off
unfathomable heroics, or woo the opposite gender in an innovative and admirable
fashion, or will do something that will bear a lesson for the readers. All this
will sum up to a conclusive ending of the story, be it happy ending, sad ending
or any other emotional end. Now to the contrary, the real lives of people are
not as happening as of the protagonists of our stories. Suppose the same writer
we talked about earlier. He writes such admirable stories sitting behind his
desk with a mug of coffee or a cup of tea. He may have the usual glasses on his
nose and may not have himself experienced the life he is describing in his stories.
He will have a number of crushes in his life. Most of whom he, unlike his protagonists,
will not approach for him being very shy or overtly courteous. He will finally
find someone whom he loves more than what his protagonists feel about any girl
in his stories. He will propose her with very dull words in a dull coffee house
on a dull evening. The lady may accept it. Let us suppose she does. Then he
will bombarded with the dull drama and get married. He will have the usual
married life – of ups and downs. This story will unfold for couple of decades
where he will grow old. One day as every day he will perform his daily chores.
That day will have nothing remarkable in it and that day he will abruptly die.
The story ends here.
I am sorry if I lost you
somewhere and you do not want to read more. The truth is that this is the most
popular story by nature itself. It has written it so many times that almost every
time it etches the same plot. So what is so wonderful about this category of
stories that we never write. I do not know yet. However, I guess that it must
be possibility of improvisation by the protagonist and antagonist alike. In our
stories there is no hope, it sets itself and it will be set. However, in our
life we have hope, we may bit by bit improvise the story and change the ending
altogether. We may change it to a story of heroics or a story of romance or a
story of crime and so on. If will be free and I suppose there is free will,
then we can behold the pen that is still writing our story. The beauty here is
that we are being created as a part of this story that is still being written.
We are dead once the story is complete. Not yet.
So, why should you read
the common experience of a common man that I set out to write in first place? I
think I should wait and share with you a better experience to read.
Cheers!
