Sushant Thapa
The talk is a reflection. A humble being from inside, wants to listen a lot. Listening is the passive form of talking, but I guess it is where we absorb the world. To understand and share our personality, one should be free from the office politics. “Office Politics,” these two words hit me in the face. A free and dedicated employee can deliver to his potential. When the employee only talks much and works less, office politics get involved. When the mind is not free and is not comfortable and confined to narrow walls or judgments of a fellow colleague, it becomes difficult to perform well.
I have been working in a very spacious environment. Empathy and emotional intelligence, hobbies and passions are all given a floor to exhibit. Appreciating a quote written by a colleague in the whiteboard of a faculty room, my poetry book being read by fellow teachers. Life has a lot to absorb. Talking is important, but slowly the process has been about expressing oneself well. From an introverted quality, gradual level of communicative behavior is shaped by teaching. Communication is a necessary skill and art. Mystics and yogis communicated well, through their voice as well as written form. When self-help books talk about something, when storyteller talk, we listen with amazement and wonder.
Construction of narrative in storytelling is like finding what is going on in your life. It is also like finding what is going to happen to your life. Literary people can handle their life well. They express through words and learn to free the world. My journey to write a diary is totally inspired by my aura to receive artistic sensibilities. Talking less might be an introverted ideal, but having a story to tell will make you social in the long run. Reading also makes you aware about the world. The world is all there to embrace. Talking less in an office environment is normal. The classroom is the place to communicate well.
A blank page of a diary is your blessing. Nothing is wrong or incorrect. I am practicing to script my heart. I write the diary when I am not tired. Usually in the afternoon. Free writing heals the spirit and develops or raises the consciousness to me. We are blessed with education. We have learnt to read and write. Let’s put that to some work and ease the burden on our mind. Turning the white pages to a thought process strives to ignite the creative fire. Let your mind reveal and the hands on your keyboard do your magic. I surely type my diary first. I don’t normally use pen and paper. Only pen and paper don’t do the magic of writing. With time new technological tools emerge. There is no point talking about these processes.
I want to talk about all the books that I want to read. Time is so short for me. Twenty-four hours is not enough. Everything has come down to read, write and understand the world. For now, I like fiction. I have been reading a memoir on abortion by Annie Ernaux. I am surprised how memory has been kept intact and how Ernaux can write about her past. She has written from her memory about the time she lived 40 years ago. The way Ernaux speaks in the book reveals layers of what had happened to her at her younger age when she wanted to abort the baby. She was unmarried, and with a developing child. When she describes herself in the book she is two-three months pregnant.
(Sushant Thapa is a Nepalese poet from Biratnagar-13, Nepal who holds a Master’s degree in English literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has published five books of poetry namely: The Poetic Burden and Other Poems (Authorspress, New Delhi, 2020), Abstraction and Other Poems (Impspired, UK, 2021), Minutes of Merit (Haoajan, Kolkata, 2021), Love’s Cradle (World Inkers Printing and Publishing, New York, USA and Senegal, Africa, 2023) and Spontaneity: A New Name of Rhyme (Ambar Publication House,2023). Sushant has been published in places like Sahitya Post, The Gorkha Times, The Kathmandu Post, The Poet Magazine, The Piker Press, Trouvaille Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Impspired, Harbinger Asylum, New York Parrot, Pratik Magazine, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Dope Fiend Daily, Atunis Poetry, EKL Review, The Kolkata Arts, Dissident Voice, Journal of Expressive Writing, As It Ought To Be Magazine, Spillwords, Mad Swirl, Ink Pantry, International Times and Outlook India among many. Sushant received Yashaswi Book Awards 2079 for his third book of poems “Minutes of Merit” in the recently held Kaling Literary Festival, Kathmandu.)
