Doodling brilliance

         The last post took me around 3 days to compile, and , as a reader, I would say, it has been my most dissatisfying "work of art" so far. It is infinitely simpler to write about things that are actually in your mind as opposed to those which you force inside it for the sake of maintaining a logical train of thought. I find it so much more easier to write about how changing seasons always make me nostalgic, in one sentence, and the gujju patriarch who had once sat next to me in the train, staring intently at a one page wedding card for the entire time it would have taken me to finish two chapters of a Harry Potter book, in the next. Unforced thoughts seldom follow a comprehensible scheme of things. They are as random as random can be. At least, that is the case with me. I am already beginning to lose track of the purpose with which I had started writing this post.

          When it comes to literature, continuity doesn't come easy for the creator. But the consumer expects continuity. In the end, and not always for the best, it is the writer who usually goes against his own literary instincts and ends up creating "bestsellers" that are way beneath his creative abilities. Is coherence really a mandate for literature? Yes it is, one might say. But isn't beautifying the language an art in itself?

         I think of all the brilliant creations of literary geniuses rotting in some forgotten corner of the world, censured, by convention, as "unfit" for mass consumption, merely because their creators lost out in the battle for coherence, and I say it is time we, as readers, jumped the cause-effect barrier, at least once in a while. Let us expose ourselves more often to beauty created by the language alone and not by the content. Let not our minds be slaves to logic and comprehension. Let not our choices be driven by the desire to be sensible. Let us be free-thinkers in the true sense of the word. Let us give doodles a chance.

P.S:- If you think this post is pointless, it probably is and, therefore, you need to read it once more ;)