The ‘Medium’ Story:
Medium — a word with various connotations. What do I mean by it? Is it the very tool I am using to write this? Or is it just being as a synonym for platform? Or maybe it is with reference to the length? I leave it for you to decide.
I have never been a serious blogger ever. Started two blogs in the past, with the greatest of enthusiasm which quickly dissipated into nothingness. Now they are just a space which preserves a different me from a different time.
2020 — enters the nefarious corona virus. Stuck inside my home, with the nature of work changing. Juggling between the paranoia of the non narrativized disease and the demands of my job, I stumbled across Medium.
Writing in the first person is complete no no in the academic world of criticisms and theories. Accordingly my first post submitted on Medium was alike to my academic practices. That is when I was asked to write in the first person. A challenge I had never faced before. For a change my writing was expected to be something very different.
Words typed, deleted, typed again, cursor blinking, a moment of apprehension . A word, a sentence, a line, a paragraph, and in no time I had written an article on Post humanism. No not a critical aspect of Posthumanism, but an experiential aspect. Once accepted, I realized I had enjoyed writing in the first person very much. Soon enough I had 5 of my works published.
Medium became my medium of expression. The stress at work , the deadlines suddenly became quite tolerable as I turned to write again and again. I write , I express. May be it means something or maybe it does not. But I understand it is what want to write. No predefined expectations . I just write, hoping to be understand but not expecting to.
Meaning and medium come together to make understanding. I have combined the two and created my sense of understanding. As I write this post I am continually reminded of Ted Hughes “ The Thought Fox” —
“The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed”.
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