Flight....

Every once in a while something comes your way which completely shakes you up....it does something to your insides..something due to which you can 'feel' the thing that is you....!! It just reflects who you are and attempts to answer why you're here.I saw a movie and it touched me in a way which i cannot describe. I did not like it for the way its made, although i think its brilliant, but i loved it simply for one scene. The movie is called shadows in the sun. Its about a writer who stops writing and then an editor comes along and changes just about everything.

There is a scene where after being admonished by the editor, the writer steps into his study. The study room has remained closed for years. His fear when he sits in front of the Type writer and attempts to write, the way his hands tremble and that feeling that you just cant do it, not again. After struggling for sometime, attempting to type a few words, he just breaks down and cries!!! He gets up, and opens the window and takes the fresh air in as if he is breathing reality...! The fear and the passion which has been captured in that one scene is beyond words.

I couldn't help the tears flowing down my face. I have known what it is to fear writing...fear expression....!! When you finally overcome that fear and put pen to paper you're so overwhelmed, you feel ALIVE and FREE. There is a freedom in expression, in writing that i've not experiences in anything else. Perhaps painters feel the same and for that matter any artist.

There is a corner so sacred and deep and vast inside you...which finds expression only in freedom..and art is that freedom. I can fly as long as i can write...and boy, how high is the sky!