Seeking Something Precious From You
I share a true story with you. My father had a doctor friend and he was very respected and valued. He would always prescribe at least seven drugs to his patients. So once my father asked him why he loaded so much pressure of cost on his poor patients.
He replied, ‘I prescribe first set of three drugs for the cure or treatment of the disease and another set of four drugs to counter the side-effects of the first three drugs...’
He also added, as most of his patients were poor, they had deprived nourishment levels and a few supplements he had to prescribe so that the drugs could not disturb their already fragile body-system...
I need to say it very humbly that I find myself in similar position to this doctor, when I write. Even when a doctor has not manufactured the drug, a good doctor always owns the onus of the side-effects or disturbance which it can cause to a person in need of a remedy or cure, especially if the end-user does not have the required nourishment levels. Similar are the destiny of words, which we use. Their utility and worth always is at the end of the receiver but still, we, the speaker have to own the onus of its effects on others.
Being a good human is tough, as we have to be very responsible over what we deliver. For all good human and good-intentioned people, life cannot be easy. Therefore, we should do what this doctor did. When we deliver words, we need to design the whole package in such a way that there are a set of words, which communicates what we wish to convey. And then, in the same writing, we need to add another set of words, which backs up the first set of words, ensuring that it has little side-effect or destabilizing impact on an average reader.
This artistry of fruition in writing is very tough task.
I don’t say that I have this, yet I very humbly request you to accept that while one writes, you may at times feel, he or she is writing uselessly so many words. The idea is, most words we use, are so full of diverse meanings and shades of interpretations. Moreover, every single person is in different shade of consciousness. This difference in consciousness engenders different meaning of the same word or set of words to different people.
Therefore, I very humbly request you to magnanimously extend me your compassion and affection. As a writer, what I mean to say is not at my side. It is at your side and that is why, your compassionate heart for my words are the prerequisite for the fruition of my humble endeavour and enterprise.
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