THE UNTOLD STORY
by Allwin Bright
Sir hum soch rahe the ki hum kar kya rahe hain. Hum writer bannaa chaahthe hain lekin Q.E. ka kaam kar rahe hain technopark mein. Aur roz office aakar computer ke saame baite excel sheets barthe hain. Na to hamaara writing improve ho raha hain sir, na aage ka koi opportunity mil raha hain. Kab tak aur kaise chalega sir.
ALLWIN BRIGHT WRITES 
Dear Allwin
Long time no hear. I’m unable to critique your writing, since I don’t speak the language.
Hope life is treating you well.
Cheers from a now widowed GRANDPA
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Dear Grandpa,
I’m so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you. I hope you are okay.
I am really really sorry that I took this long to reply back. I’ve been meaning to reply back to you for the past few weeks. But to be honest I didn’t know what to write. As a matter of fact even now I don’t. But I am writing anyway.
I have been feeling particularly hopeless and depressed lately. I am angry and frustrated with myself that I am not able to write. I just feel like I’m stuck here. I don’t know how to get out of this rut I am in.
This post right here is a slightly modified version of a dialogue from the movie ‘M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story’. I could completely relate to the scene and the dialogue from the movie. Thus, the post.
And life just hasn’t been treating me well at all. Life constantly seems so unfair. The last two years have been the worst years of my life. In these two years I have lost faith in everything that I believed for so long – God, Friendship, Love, Marriage, Family. Everything.
Grandson
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If it is any help, someone said “good times don’t last, and bad times pass”. I don’t think anyone told us that life will be an easy journey. It will be what we make of it. It is upto us eventually.
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My simple response is, just write.
Good times may not lead to happy writing. Tough times are the right fuel for you to offer to your Muse. Just keep feeding her, she’s like the fire element within. If it catches, it can be very powerful, but start the fire and keep feeding it.
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Thank you so much for stopping by Shankari Ma’am. Your comments mean a lot to me. I couldn’t agree more on tough times being the fuel for your muse. That also reminds me of a quote from the Kodachrome.
“Let me tell you something. Happiness is bullshit. It’s the great myth of the late 20th century. You think Picasso was happy? You think Hemingway was? Hendrix? They were miserable shits. No art worth a damn was ever created out of happiness. I can tell you that. Ambition, narcissism, sex, rage. Those are the engines that drive every great artist, every great man. A hole that can’t be filled. That’s why we’re all such miserable assholes.”
-Benjamin Asher Ryder, Kodachrome
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