Voice-over

I lost my voice in 2013, though I kept writing and unintentionally using my voice, I wasn't doing it with awareness and finally after a lot of soul searching I found my voice and I realised that it was not lost, it had just got buried in the rubble of the politics. It's good to have my voice back, it feels like an athlete finally being able to use his injured limbs back. One thing that I did was that I wrote a lot. I do not consider myself to be a writer, but truth is that I am a writer, I write a lot and I write daily and I have been doing that since more than a decade now. I like to write fiction but as much as I love it, I personally realise that there is no significance of it in the present world. The world has changed, and I have to pimp my artistry as people do with short form content on social media. The truth is that I mostly write for myself, for the creative pleasure and satisfaction it brings me though I try to be informative. I like memoir style writing and it would be great fun to do it just as a project and because my life has been nothing but an unbelievable and mindblowing ride, though I do not want to pimp myself though this is not the reason for not writing memoir style writing, the real reason is that there are lakhs in this country who have no voice, and their lives are pretty interesting too if not an, for lack of a better word, extravaganza, like my life has been. My life has been straight out of a Danny Boyle film and yet I have managed to make it look like a Hrishikesh Mukherjee film. Though truth be told, both Danny Boyle and Hrishikesh Mukherjee parts of my life are true, though I wanted it to be Hrishikesh Mukherjee film through and through with a sprinkling of Chris Columbus and Niveldine and Taylor. The past decade has taught me that reality is way stranger than fiction can ever be. It's been fun watching shit unfold. I realise that it's all politics, and of course slavery, and I have gone through shit that is, what even the medical professional in me thinks is psychologically and to some extent physically too, impossible to get through but I got through and that made me realise how tough life of people actually is in this country, though the truth is that I was already empathetic enough and I didn't need to be more empathetic and according to my rough calculations the good to asshole ratio this country is 30:70, so I would like to reserve my empathy for the 30 percent, and to do do that one needs to be able to identify people which, by virtue of my profession, thankfully I specialise in. Having my voice back is great. I miss the late 2000s and early 2010s era of blogging and longform content so I'm keeping it alive, in fact I never stopped. The world has changed a lot since early 2010s, but I know enough to realise that even this viral and major change is just cosmetic.