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To write or not to write

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If people ask me this question for a million times my answer will still be the same. To write or not to write is never the question. The real question is how. For me, writing is not just to get recognition or feel productive but it is my life. Writers write because it compels them to write. You don’t decide if you want to be a writer. It chooses you. It is like a breeze that flows past you and it’s up to you if want to hold on it or forget. In the same way when I was 14, this power of writing struck me. This breeze wanted to manifest in me as a journalism piece that leads to change. I had never really thought that I wanted to be a journalist before that breeze hit me while I was on my way to school. After a lot of chaos and pain, I realized to write or not to write was never the question. It was always within me and I choose not to ignore it. Writing is like an antibiotic or a remedy. If you take it in proper doses it has the potential to cure every form of imaginary il