Dear Fellow-writers

I had no intention in the first place
to embark upon such but, after starting,
new ideas led me on.

It was hard to stop and I have had a sense
of liberation with the release of every such thought.

I do not court agreement
and please feel free to disagree-
that will make me happy.

We write as we find freedom
in doing so-- it's like us opening
the window of our heart and mind
to the sunlight outside
instead of staying in the
lonely recesses of our closed self-
this release is not only therapeutic
but gives our life meaning and purpose-
every writer is a traveller and adventurer-
he often doesn't know where he is heading
but it is precisely this unknown that impels
him to explore, to venture into terra incognita,
to test his limits and to discover 'that something'
which he can't yet define and which hitherto has eluded him-
the quest of the ultimate beauty and truth, life's deepest mysteries and contradictions, the meaning beyond meaning, his true self
and the poverty of his past existence?

At the end, he might not find what he had sought for
or perhaps might have only discovered 'something' dimly or partially but the quest has not been in vain as he would have become larger than his previous self and emerged as a person, somewhat purified, renewed, humbled and unbroken.