Tuesday, February 21, 2017

How to NOT write a book about yourself

Dear Aditi,

My whole life I have related myself to fictional characters. Well, almost all my life. And that got me thinking that if I was the protagonist of a book based on my life it would be such a shitty book. I mean apart from me not being strong, like mentally and all and my conscience not being the purest one what there.

As a protagonist, I have been told that you must always do what is right. But as an individual I don't always do what's right. Like cutting off ties with people, I surprisingly do that a lot. And like stealing your neighbours newspaper. Also guilty of that. And being so self involved that you don't realise all the possibility of things that could be happening around you. Wait, that's basically the entire Harry Potter series but to be fair that kid did have a lot going on in his life so we should cut him some slack. There also comes that part where no one wants to read about some mundane person's mundane life. People like the spicy stuff, and I'm not spicy. On a range from bland to spicy I would be like a Bell Pepper. So not completely bland but like no one in their right mind eats only Bell Pepper.

What I've come to realise that if my life were a book it would be the most boring book in existence, not because I know this book front to back and this has now lost it's excitment but because my life as a book would be a plateau. It's the same thing over and over again.

Day 1
Upasana woke up. Upasana stayed in bed for an hour after waking up because Upasana didn't want to study.

Day 2
Upasana woke up. Upasana stayed in bed to browse twitter instead of studying. Upasana didn't want to study.

Day 3
Upasana woke up. Upasana went back to sleep.

Day 15
Upasana woke up. Upasana wanted to stay in bed for an hour longer. So she did.

Day 169
Upasana woke up. Upasana wonders why did she even bother.

Day ???
Upasana didn't wake up.

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