A word is born way
before it is written. Writing or typing a word is
sharing with others, but it’s actually written
when it’s thought of. Every word is a complete
structure in itself…a live structure that
breathes through the window of its own meaning. While
writing, we juggle with the letters to make a word
complete. Often we erase or backspace to correct a
word. How unfair is it to the word itself? That’s
injustice against its existence. While being written,
or even thought about, a word has created its own
shadow and its own meaning. You can’t over write
its existence. Either you over write the entire word,
or you leave it the way it is and start with another
correct word, which will look awkward of course. So,
erase the entire word and write it all over again.
Don’t enter the existing territory of the word
by replacing a ‘V’ with a ‘W’ to
correct the meaning. If you think you made a mistake
while brining a word to life, you don’t fix it,
you get rid of its physical existence, but letting
its shadow live as it is. Go on and write another
correct word without tainting the memory of a word
that got written wrong with all faults of yours and
the modern technology.
A word has a great
power. The meaning of a word is born before the word
itself comes alive on the paper. The letter ‘H’
in the word ‘House’ has its own existence.
Even if it is typed wrong, the word has been born. A
shadow has been created. If I typed ‘f’
instead of an ‘s’ in the word ‘House’,
it’s not fair to backspace and replace it with
‘s’ and make it look good on the paper.
Erase the whole thing instead of playing sheepishly
with the letters. Admit the mistake and let its
shadow stay as it is. A letter even if typed wrong
belongs to a particular word…even if by mistake.
It is wrong to take it out of a wrongly typed word
and replace it with a correct letter. That is
interfering with the existence of that word. We are
mixing the right and wrong and correcting it to our
own benefit. Erase the whole word and type it all
over again, without breaking the law of the word.
Every word that comes alive once should be left with
its own letters, if not physically, then in its
shadow form. If we think of all the words that have
been mismatched to fit the correct meaning, we could
clearly see the layers of plasters crippling the
originality of the words. It is more like a pile of
corrupt literature with plastered words.
Let every word be
born and die if wrong instead of letting it live with
borrowed letters. Let all the wrongly typed or
written words die completely and be born again…alive…fresh,
carrying its correct meaning and power. May be that’s
why the olden days literature is more original, and
powerful, because there were no backspace keys or the
erasers. The correct literature was rewritten in its
entirety instead of hiding or backspacing the
mistakes. Power of the literature comes with its
originality. We are losing it day by day by mastering
the ways to play with the words. Feel guilty every
time you cheat on a word. How is it different then
the ticking clock? The minute that has passed by…perfect
or not, is still standing there staring at us with
all its power. Why the injustice with the words?
Right or wrong, let it live a moment’s life and
go on with the new words. You can’t undo what
happened in the past minute. You will only try to
better it with all your efforts. Same is true for a
word. Look at it from a literary point of view, not
from the practical eye, and give it a thought.
