About Me — Manu Sharma

Finally, I can talk about myself

Sup? (Image from Unsplash)

Hello and welcome to this ted talk. My name is Manu Sharma and I’m about 2 weeks old, I mean here, on Medium.

I chose hedgehog here because I feel it represents me better. And I love animals.

My Relation With Writing

In school and university exams time, I always studied in the last 20 days left for the exam. I always like this saying:

I like sailing when there is a storm.

— Some Unknown Dude

But the thing I hated even after studying THAT MUCH, was writing.

I used to look at the question paper, counted my marks. Which question required the shortest answer and had high marks, I wrote that.

I hated writing to the extent that even after I knew the answer I used to leave the question after counting that I will at least have a 60% score.

Me hiding after my 60%. (Image from Unsplash)

I love reading A Lot. My favorite fiction book is “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs. I read approximately 1200 pages in 3 days. And I was left with memories, a hell of a lot of imagination, goosebumps, and large dark circles around my eyes. But that’s okay.

I can still remember the images this book created while reading. So it was worth the read.

…Okay, apart from writing, I sing and I have an Instagram ID of my cover songs and I haven’t posted much. I am trying out some online business also.

So how did I go from hating to write to becoming a writer? Should I call myself a writer yet? I don’t know. But I’m doing quite well as a writer here. (I guess)

My Writing Journey

I started writing because I wanted to write of course. I was planning to have a personal blog and buy a hosting plan since 2018. But then I found Medium. Yay!

Writing helped me put my jumbled thoughts on a paper then I and the other Me rearranged those thoughts to make it worth the read.

It helped me stay calm, collected, and sane. Because apart from writing I hated talking much since childhood, I either listened to people talk or I read books. So it kind of became hard to express myself.

After 20 years I understood this is not the right way to live. So I learned a little bit to express myself. It’s like someone came from the forest and she was alone there for 20 years and now she is learning to behave. LOL

Time to leave this Forest. (Image from Unsplash)

I started writing small notes on my phone and diary. Then I learned about myself a lot. It’s been 4 years since I came out of the forest. It’s quite okay here.

Oh! There’s one more thing about me. I can’t be serious for more than 2 minutes, I feel like cracking a joke. I don’t care if it’s funny or not.

My goal as a Medium writer is to be a voice for someone or something that can’t speak. It’s not always inspirational. I mean, I may get emotional for the spoon in my house that no one uses for no reason and write for it.

I don’t have a niche to write. But I would like to have humor in everything I write. In the hopes of making you all laugh. Let’s write it out and relax.

Thanks for coming here.

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