I don't believe I am writing this

 You read it right, I don’t believe it that I am here, writing again. I love to write. Then what holds me back? The same thought that holds many back… What would people think of this? When I started to write, it was just a casual thing … write to pen down my thoughts, my experiences. But eventually I would stop. I started to worry if my thoughts would offend someone, what would someone feel I am writing about them… what if … what if… what if...

My mentor, Pradnya said to me a few months back that I should write and I smiled. A few weeks back she said something which also meant “Nothing that I write is a life or death decision.” And that is true. My intention to write is just to share my thoughts. My intention was never to change the world or a person… If my words do impact someone in some way it is good, really good. But, there is hardly anyone who comes to read this in the first place. Except for my regular audience… Megha, Radhika and … no I think that is it. (Not counting my husband and my daughter because I make them read it. They are not given a choice 😉).

So, how does it matter? Too often we hold ourselves from doing something (even teeny-meeny things) because we keep thinking about our ‘what ifs’… when in reality those ‘what ifs’ don’t exist. So just go for it.