Here I Come !
Over the last decade or so, i have been pondering as to why writing should remain the exclusive domain of the laureates alone? Why can't common people write what they feel like? So what if my command over the language is not as good as Sommerset Maugham? Who cares if i am not as good a storey teller as Prem Chand. So what if my thoughts are not as profound as Swami Vivekanand and Aldus Huxley? What if my attempted humorous situations cant compare with PGW? What the fuss. I still have a right to write!. I have decided to write. Of course I can write. I will write I think. I should. I must.
So here i come!
If you go to Google Search, select “image”, type “Ejaz Hussain” and then press Enter, thousands of thumbnails will appear on the screen. Well! Actually none of them is mine. Honestly speaking I am not a celebrity - nor am I likely to be. If i dont figure in Google image search, am I a non-entity?. or do not exist?. Does it mean I have no business to write?. without repeating jokes being received through SMSs these days, i have vowed to record some honest expressions on paper. For writing, you dont really need a pen and paper these days. Blogs are there absolutely for free.
I usually think in my mother tongue. At times when I am agitated, I start thinking in English. Or may be it depends on the person with whom I am interacting in my thoughts. But I never think in French or Russian language. Because I do not know even the basics of these two languages. In other words I can think only about those things which I have seen, heard or read or experienced in any of the forms. I can imagine having a romantic date with Sushmita Sen. I can even have my own licentious fantasies with unknown figures. But I cannot think/ dream/ fantacise about a thing which has not existed in the environment of my brain before. The mind has to be taught beforehand through some form or the other. It has to come from instinct or acquired from surroundings. Seems difficult to explain. Hope you understand.
I have selected the word “Commonplace” to confuse the reader. Not that I am doubting my reader’s literary capabilities, my guess is that a good 95% of them wouldn’t be able to guess the exact meaning of this word. I myself didn’t know about it even after spending half a century. The word “commonplace” is not a commonly used word these days. It has nothing to do with either "common" or "place". The best solution is to see a dictionary, for yourself. My handy PC dictionary cleared all doubts I had regarding the meaning of this innocuous word. Here is a cut and paste.
Noun:
1. A trite or obvious remark
Now I hope you know the meaning of trite.
Read on!. Go WOW!!
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PS: (15.01.2014) After having written a couple of filthy pieces, i am thinking i should have named this blog title "Un-Commonplace". Late realisation.
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