Its been a while since i wrote anything.Then that's something all writers have in common right?
Anyway it's been a while since Arsenal won anything,that must be something football clubs have in common too right?So trophy droughts are to clubs what writing droughts are to writers.Except trophy droughts are subject to more scrutiny from the public eye.Particularly when speaking about a big football club like Arsenal.For instance you don't need to look further than the infamous Twitter to see for yourself just how much scrutiny Arsenal has attracted for the club's trophy drought."The last time Arsenal won a trophy..."is how most of these blogs written and posted on twitter everyday by frustrated Arsenal fans will begin.Well the last time Arsenal won a trophy,i had just graduated from high school.Now I've been through years of college-graduated,university-graduated,and I'm now on my third job since graduating from University.That should explain the exact period of time we're looking at when we talk about Arsenal's trophy drought.However,my intention is not to follow a similar path as the aforementioned twitter blogs(although it's easy to see just how quickly one can get carried away when starting a story with the 'danger words')Very 'dangerous words' indeed.Quite frankly,as a writer,I'm jealous of all the attention Arsenal has been receiving,negative or not.Why-because writers crave for this attention,they want people to read their work-isn't that the point of writing in the first place?So I'm sitting here thinking how i cannot go a day without reading about Arsenal's trophy drought somewhere yet no one cares that i haven't written in a week,in a month,hell in a year!Not a fair comparison?Maybe.Of course Arsenal is a world renown brand and I'm just some writer no one's ever heard of.The truth is i always enjoyed writing.At first i did it to impress my friends(i wrote very good compositions in primary school,stories in high school,articles in university for which i always scored very high marks-this always earned me plaudits amongst my peers)I reveled in the attention,adulation,adoration.My English teachers and lecturers would make me read out my work to the rest of the class and everyone was just told bluntly to write like me.I was the benchmark for excellent writing.Up until i lost my audience.After graduating,i realized there was no longer anyone to read my work.Well i guess i have the 'danger words' to thank for giving me new found self drive and the urge to get back to writing ways.I'm on a search of my long lost glory.I sometimes imagine what it would be like to log into twitter and read hundreds of blogs condemning and bashing my writing drought.Questioning the superiority of my writing art.Claiming it's time for me to hang up my boots,that I'm just not as good as i used to be.Alleging that i have refused to change with the times,that my ways are of eons and eons of old age.Challenging my authority and mastery of the craft.Calling for my high profile departure from the writing industry,disregarding what i have done for the art,unappreciative of all the joy and pride i have given hundreds through my work in the past.Disrespectful of my once lauded articulate ways of expressing my work.Don't you see the impact of the 'danger words'?Don't you see how they threaten my very mere existence?Can you not see that their intention is to do me more harm than good?Isn't it crystal clear that they're very short-term looking?Don't they border more on the emotional front instead of really looking at things in greater perspective?Don't all good things come with time?Doesn't good wine mature with time?Did Moses not eventually pat the water with the cane?Did it not take him ages to lead the children of Israel out of bondage and slavery?I wonder how long it took Hemingway to write the Old man and the sea,Shakespeare to complete the story of Hamlet and Sophocles to come up with Antigone.Is a 7yr drought the worst thing you can bear with yet what will come out of it at the end is a masterclass,a masterpiece?I mean did it not take me this long to do my second piece and wasn't it worth the wait?
