Docile Pen
Our individual views are unique to the world, not because
they hold anything special, but because of the unconscious potentials they
carry as well as ideas they pass to others which prove to make a difference. I
may be a shitty writer but I really do have a lot to write about. I may not be
seen to be with the docile pen but seriously I am with one, and by God’s grace,
time will prove my point.
Wish I could make manifest of my little knowledge to serve
the world. Until now, I have always believed that, there are already too many good
writers, and our sincere stories will die with us. I still recall that a good
number of materials I have read were pass on to me from history and most of
which I found amusing with indispensably great ideas. So, that sealed my
hesitation and was pushed to use my inked Docile Pen to write because, I
realised that innocent hands wrote those things which I found so useful, and
they were not written by perfect writers because a good number of them convincingly
made me believe that they have nothing special to write neither were they
perfect writers, but rather they just wanted to make a difference by sharing
their ideas which they thought will be useful to others. I know I was not their
intended reader but still, I got my share of the cake.
Deep inside me, I know very well that I have no desire to
become a perfect writer, because I am not one, or compete with others, but
rather I am too scared I may have benefited from ideas written by others but,
carelessly have failed to share mine with the world, because just like others I
read, its useful as ordinary as it may be, and conscience won’t let me even if
posterity don’t find out. I feel it’s a crime to be reluctant to express your
ideas through writing, as we all may have experience that a person who could
not express his ideas in an exam, may fail unnecessarily. Just like in my
experience during my university days, when I was to report my final project, my
supervisor replied my first attempt “Lukman you have done a great job but you
fail to report” and he continued into details, I was shocked because, I was
convinced that I have done well, but how important it was to express my work
through writing that can render my research work fruitless. Also, how useless
it would be if an unusual machine is bought without operation manual from the
inventor just because he feels it’s unnecessary or he is not a good writer. I
realised that, expressing our self through writing serves more than just speak
for us and should never be ignored.
Usually, I comfort myself with “don’t bother, there are
perfect writers who can write for others to read”, but the demand isn’t the
perfection at writing but the vitality of the message. So, I think everyone
should write so that we can stand a better chance of conveying the message with
varieties and flavours in order to give readers a number of choices. I intend
to write for rear people like myself, and hope for passionate readers so I can
happily scale my topics to meet the specific demands of few deep readers, while
I make sure I don’t lose focus.
Throughout history, efforts are being made to make the world
a better place, with considerably good chain of success. A connecting line from
generation to generation defines two outstanding groups; those who invent
something to make the world a better place, and people who write their ideas
for others to read. These two groups have being mutually dependent as they
attain success by building on each other’s work. So we either invent something
for people to write about or write ideas so people can reap and then invent.
So, I have decided to share my little knowledge and
experience about variety of topics, with full enthusiasm and believe that it
may pave way to problem solving.