After 34 weeks, you would be surprised with a title like this.
I read about newsletters and the general advice is I should not be writing if I do not have a TPOV (Teachable Point of View).
I have to say I owe you an apology.
I do not have a TPOV and still, I hound you week after week.
I am generally wondering why I do that.
I know only 10% of people read what I send.
However, I wish to clarify few things.
I write because of the following reasons
- Share experiences irrespective of the nature of the experience
- Share perspectives that put me in a state of cognitive dissonance or in simple terms, what I preach is not in line with what I practice
- Gives me certain clarity of thought on certain ideas
- Brings out a certain aspect of me that I did not realize was there.
It is more of a selfish self-discovery process. Sometimes I do get preachy, but that is not because I want to be, but because I have found, that I realized a certain truth in a hard way and maybe I do not want everyone to go through that painful path.
I realize that I have too many mistakes in my writing, but my excuse is that I am not a native speaker of English and those are errors in translation of thoughts from my native tongue to English.
The remotest hope I have with the weekly hounding is the following
- Bring a smile to you even for a nanosecond
- Explore yourself a little better. Put you on a path of self-discovery where you find your game of cricket (Sir Neville cardus quoted that Cricket is a game of glorious inconsistencies. I found that thought applicable to me and may be you will also laugh at your glorious inconsistencies and be peaceful with it)
- Put your thoughts to paper (As my professor used to say, If Zunder can do it anyone can do it!)
- Motivate you to start and stick to a habit just by acting( I read somewhere someone saying Execution is Strategy or I think there is a book titled like that!)
- Compile a carefully curated mix of writings that are inspiring and help us challenge our status quo in all aspects of our life.
I feel happy, when one of you comment, one of you write back or send me a personal message about something I wrote or one of you take a counter view on what I wrote. To be honest, there are not many instances of that and I do think why is that, but then I get to be fine with that and continue. I remember what was etched into me when I was possibly in seventh standard or so. “You have the right to……….”. I know you can fill in those blanks !!
I had set a target of 52 weeks and I have just 17 more to go after this one. I am sure if you can get across 34, another 18 would be a cake walk!
Do continue to help me in discovering my glorious inconsistencies.
Enjoy Maadi (Have Fun)
Zunder
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I’m one of those who continue to read all of your 35 issues. Surely your writing has helped to develop a different perspective of life. Please keep writing.
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