I always have this trouble of doing something new. My heart beats faster when I start doing a new task.

A few hours before sitting in front of my laptop, I was all pumped up to write a blog. But when I write this as I punch the keys of my laptop, I realize how awkward this can become.

In the year 2010, I joined the National Institute of Technology, Warangal in the state of Telangana, India to pursue my Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. I was a shy, reticent, introvert lad who looked like someone stepping his feet in the world outside his home for the first time. When I reached college, I was completely devoid of all the essential skills that a person needs for him to sustain his life. When I speak of skills, it includes socializing as well. It was very difficult to learn these skills. But there was this one thing that I wanted to do, and it was to become a writer.

Why did I think of being a writer? My yet-to-be-mature mind thought that writing was an easy and lucrative job. I thought it was about writing novels, though I have read only a few. In my school day, My father asked me to read a book. It could be anything. It could be a story book, a textbook or anything of that sort. But he also said to understand whatever was written in the book. For the entire duration of my school life, I have never read a textbook. It was all about memorizing it. I have never read a novel, because novels are boring and it has so many huge words in them. Even though I took some story books like “The Three Musketeers” or “Around the World in 80 days”, I could not understand a single word in that book.

During the last few years of my school, I saw my friend reading a book titled as“Five Point Someone”. He was also carrying another book named, “One Night at the Call Center”. The author’s name was Chetan Bhagat.

After reading “Five Point Someone”, I realized that novels can be written in simple English. When I completed the book, it was a moment of accomplishment, “Yes, I have read a novel cover to cover”.

The fact that novels can be written in simple and clear English prompted me to write. But as time passed, I noticed there were many other reasons for me to write.

(to be continued…)

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