"Either Do something worth writing or Write something worth Reading", they say.
Hello Readers!
I was just thinking about how people write, and it just came to my knowledge that about half the students of my class write, you know poems and songs and such.
Its just the expression of creativity and talent. Then I started thinking about as to what makes what they write, good enough for us to want to read it?
I stumbled on the answer, while watching the play written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamr. A beautiful play to be honest, i loved it, you must check it out, the name is "Sadqay Tumhare".
There's a simple answer to the aforementioned question,
"You can immediately recognize a good piece of art if it messes with your head."
If something you read, messes with you normal mental stability, I mean, if something grabs on and doesn't let go for about at least a week, and then you are tempted to read it again, and when you do it, it climbs on again that is when you know something you read is exceptionally well written. I to be honest, don't think have been blessed with enough talent or wit to come up with or write such a thing. In fact the day that I do, I'd be most pleased with myself.
Its one of the reasons I like Snape, (for those of you who haven't read or even watched Harry Potter, sorry that you had to spend your childhood in a cave) Its not because he is perfect or nice. I mean I completely agree that he is evil and malevolent but the fact that he is imperfect and that he loved someone and never hoped to love again, that "Always" is what grabbed on to my mind. That is the little thing that never let my mind go and hence mad me appreciate the well written character.
I've read poems that have stayed with me, like "Ranjhish hi sahi" by Ahmad Faraz, the song "Jeena isi ka naam hai" by Shailendra Singh and "Har ek baat pe kehte ho tum", "Dil hi to hai" by Mirza Ghalib. These little poems, they have been stuck in my brain and have stayed with me from the moment that I read them.
Frankly, (I'm about to make a bold statement) the people who don't like the dramas, fiction, stories or poems that do not have a conventional ending to them and those that wreck your world up and cause chaos all around you, are the people that don't know how to appreciate art.
I mean, sure the lovers could meet and the hero could live on and the tyrant could be stopped but in some exceptional stories it isn't what happens. It is fun to imagine what it'd be like if that did happen but the fact that it didn't teaches us a million things more.
Hello Readers!
I was just thinking about how people write, and it just came to my knowledge that about half the students of my class write, you know poems and songs and such.
Its just the expression of creativity and talent. Then I started thinking about as to what makes what they write, good enough for us to want to read it?
I stumbled on the answer, while watching the play written by Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamr. A beautiful play to be honest, i loved it, you must check it out, the name is "Sadqay Tumhare".
There's a simple answer to the aforementioned question,
"You can immediately recognize a good piece of art if it messes with your head."
If something you read, messes with you normal mental stability, I mean, if something grabs on and doesn't let go for about at least a week, and then you are tempted to read it again, and when you do it, it climbs on again that is when you know something you read is exceptionally well written. I to be honest, don't think have been blessed with enough talent or wit to come up with or write such a thing. In fact the day that I do, I'd be most pleased with myself.
Its one of the reasons I like Snape, (for those of you who haven't read or even watched Harry Potter, sorry that you had to spend your childhood in a cave) Its not because he is perfect or nice. I mean I completely agree that he is evil and malevolent but the fact that he is imperfect and that he loved someone and never hoped to love again, that "Always" is what grabbed on to my mind. That is the little thing that never let my mind go and hence mad me appreciate the well written character.
I've read poems that have stayed with me, like "Ranjhish hi sahi" by Ahmad Faraz, the song "Jeena isi ka naam hai" by Shailendra Singh and "Har ek baat pe kehte ho tum", "Dil hi to hai" by Mirza Ghalib. These little poems, they have been stuck in my brain and have stayed with me from the moment that I read them.
Frankly, (I'm about to make a bold statement) the people who don't like the dramas, fiction, stories or poems that do not have a conventional ending to them and those that wreck your world up and cause chaos all around you, are the people that don't know how to appreciate art.
I mean, sure the lovers could meet and the hero could live on and the tyrant could be stopped but in some exceptional stories it isn't what happens. It is fun to imagine what it'd be like if that did happen but the fact that it didn't teaches us a million things more.
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