Morning and Evening
Brushing and Rushing
Rushing and Crushing
To work and off work
Everyday in a Metro
Gold class or Silver class
Once on a Metro
In the rush hour,
Only cattle class.
Cattle class not the ex-UN Indian* style
Cattle class the workaholic Dubai style
One Metro
One ride
One motive.
Different colors.
Not the skin
but the mind
A mind so small
that only colors it sees.
But all I see...
Everybody rushing
Everybody squeezing in
Everybody hurrying
All for the fear of the Master
The same Master
Enslaves all;
The Master who pays for the ride.
Different people
Different attire
Different emotions
Different destinations
One motive.
Life everyday in a Metro.
*Shashi Tharoor
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Know the words you use.
If suddenly, one of the days, you go berserk with words using all the wrong ones, prepositions everywhere, unnecessary articles; was that person putting it all up, a fake personality of a grammar Nazi all these days? And mock at others' language and their sense of grammar? What a hypocrite!
Isn't it true that when one lie is unfolded, you begin questioning everything that person ever told you in the past and not dare hear anything from the person in the future, without a pinch of salt?
Language is not knowledge. Surely. But each and every word has a distinct meaning. Which is why I strongly believe, there are no perfect synonyms. While look, see, watch, observe, notice all seem to have similar meanings, they are not the same. To look at a person is not the same as to watch a person or to see a person or to observe a person or to notice a person.
I just saw a tweet from a 'profound' reader and supposedly 'writer' which said, " I hope that's just your interpretation." At the first glance, most might not find the line to be wrong. But yes, if you had gone through the entire conversation, you would realize what was being intended. It was supposed to be 'I think that's just your interpretation.' If it still seems, either words mean the same to you, let me explain further.
Hope is a word with something left to look for. "I 'hope' there is a holiday tomorrow." Whereas Think is a more definitive word. That, that is what you precisely thought. To use think and hope interchangeably, 'thinking' that they mean the same, because you make it sound similar when you say those words while you talk, is not an excuse. Because, my simple interpretation says, you can't see the person you are writing it to. So the word you use really, really matters. Which is also one if the reasons, most can get away with using wrong words while talking. And that is not the point here.
I have lots more to rant on this flow of my thoughts. But like someone once said, 'No good writing ever ends. It is only abandoned.' I would like to end this by hoping this would urge people to use the right words to write better, only if you wish to claim yourself as a writer. If you think there is something you want to add or respond to, please leave your comments below.
P.S: Although I'm a writer in my career's point of view, I have always been looking at myself merely as an aspiring writer. What do know about myself is that I'm a better story-teller than a writer. So before slamming me with your Grammar Policing, take this as my disclaimer: yes, I'm not yet a writer. But I am aspiring to be one. And I share whatever little I have been learning and mastered so far.
Isn't it true that when one lie is unfolded, you begin questioning everything that person ever told you in the past and not dare hear anything from the person in the future, without a pinch of salt?
Language is not knowledge. Surely. But each and every word has a distinct meaning. Which is why I strongly believe, there are no perfect synonyms. While look, see, watch, observe, notice all seem to have similar meanings, they are not the same. To look at a person is not the same as to watch a person or to see a person or to observe a person or to notice a person.
I just saw a tweet from a 'profound' reader and supposedly 'writer' which said, " I hope that's just your interpretation." At the first glance, most might not find the line to be wrong. But yes, if you had gone through the entire conversation, you would realize what was being intended. It was supposed to be 'I think that's just your interpretation.' If it still seems, either words mean the same to you, let me explain further.
Hope is a word with something left to look for. "I 'hope' there is a holiday tomorrow." Whereas Think is a more definitive word. That, that is what you precisely thought. To use think and hope interchangeably, 'thinking' that they mean the same, because you make it sound similar when you say those words while you talk, is not an excuse. Because, my simple interpretation says, you can't see the person you are writing it to. So the word you use really, really matters. Which is also one if the reasons, most can get away with using wrong words while talking. And that is not the point here.
I have lots more to rant on this flow of my thoughts. But like someone once said, 'No good writing ever ends. It is only abandoned.' I would like to end this by hoping this would urge people to use the right words to write better, only if you wish to claim yourself as a writer. If you think there is something you want to add or respond to, please leave your comments below.
P.S: Although I'm a writer in my career's point of view, I have always been looking at myself merely as an aspiring writer. What do know about myself is that I'm a better story-teller than a writer. So before slamming me with your Grammar Policing, take this as my disclaimer: yes, I'm not yet a writer. But I am aspiring to be one. And I share whatever little I have been learning and mastered so far.
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