First Blog

It has been a long time since I have written anything. I am a literature student. I love writing and I should love writing. But then overtime you get so busy with things that are never important that you take for granted that since you already know how to write and that you have already written so many times before, it will come naturally to you. But it does not. It gets rusty over time and when you finally decide to sit down and open your Notepad, nothing comes to mind but a black space. This is the same feeling I am experiencing right now.

This is going to be my first blog. A friend encouraged me to write here a long time ago and it took me about 6 months to finally get started. How sad is that? I write paper for my Uni course all the time but then since this is my first here, I haven't decided what to write about so I thought I might as well start with Myself.

You only have to look at the name I chose to guess just how crazy I am about Literature. I always was. English has always been my favourite subject. I always knew what I wanted when growing up. I was interested in literature and any path that literature took me would be absolutely fine with me as long as I always get to deal with anything reading and writing. So I am here, doing my undergraduate in literature and loving every minute of it. I consider myself lucky in this area that I got to do what I always wanted to. Most people usually don't have this chance.

I graduated from Arts during my Grade 12 so I got to write a lot then. My Literature teacher would always ask our class to write an essay or a poem within a class. Although we were forced to think on our heel and hated it most of the time then, those two years realy helped improve my writing a lot and I know those forced writing is one of the reasons I am here studying my course.

After I came here, it was a complete change. The things we learn are completely different compared to what we are used to back Home. At home, we are taught but here we are asked to learn ourself. That has been a huge change but then I am sure you have heard about it enough times from others. But we learn to adjust and I did too. I still write. I have to write essays for my course all the time but those are different. Those writing are for the course. Things that you are compelled to write and graded for. Although writing in whatever manner does help improve you a lot, it is not the same. Overtime I realised I have not written something  not related to my course work for a very long time.  I do not have other work and I thought about writing often enough, but I somehow never got around to it.

I just started writing here and more often than not, I think my blog is going to be about Literature than anything else. I still have some time to finish my course and although I do not have much experience I like thinking of myself as One among the writers group. You always have to dream big in order to achieve it right? I do that a lot.

People often say that the first step is always the hardest. I just took mine and hopefully the journey will be easier from now on.