'If a writer falls in love with you, you never die.' I don't know when I read this for the first time but I remember when I read it for the time worth remembering. Sitting with a pen and paper don't make you a writer but sitting with someone's presence in you heart and their absence in your life may do the job quite well.
'I want to see you in the best sellers list,' I remember he once told me.
I was just a writer but his expectation made me a published author. Sometimes someone else's expectations become more importation, even important than your own dreams. I was no different in that.
'Writing won't let you anywhere,' my father once said to me. Quite true, a writer earns name but the world can run only on the basis of money. It was 3-4 years ago this incidence happened and when I decided not to write ever again. I remember myself burning away all my written works, my stories, my poems and even a novel that I penned down years ago. I was 13.
I went years after that and I never wrote again after that, until, when I wrote for him. It was a poem I remember that he loved, at least he said so. I would have abide my promise if his smile was not something as effective as it is or if his eyes were no as influential as they are, I would have loved to keep my promise. But the matter of fact was if I didn't have penned them down in pages and captured their sanity in my words I would surely have been gone mad over them.
I had no idea he will like it, but he did. It feels so good when your hard work is really appreciated by the one for whom you actually have taken the pain.
'I wrote a novel long back,' I told him. He was really amazed to know about it. There was a prolonged silence between us after which he said 'I believe in you.' I never have heard these words from him before I too was quite surprised.
He spent a whole night trying to make me understand where my talent can lead me. I didn't had any dream in my life till them, but he was all I wanted. I was the first time he ever had asked me to do something for him, how on this earth can I dishearten him?
Well this was were I started form and hope I won't write anything which reveals where I ended at. My words are the gifts of his believe, a believe which worked as a realization for me.
I know I don't have an influential story as such but Launchora's question was why do I write? If I wanted I would easily have created a new story to win launches, but my story don't need a filter. So, here is a simple answer I write because of 'him'.