DAY 23 OF MY CREATIVE WRITING JOURNEY. THE PROMPT WAS TO CONTINUE WRITING AFTER THE SENTENCE ENDS ‘“HOW DOES ONE FIND COURAGE TO DO SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARILY COURAGEOUS THAT IS ILLOGICAL TO others?” SHE ASKED HERSELF.’
“How does one find the courage to do something extraordinarily courageous that is illogical to others?” she asked herself before pressing the send button of her email.
She thought about it for a couple of moments and began staring into space.
It was the email to resign from the firm where she had worked for the last 13 years.
It was like a second home. But this home of hers had been crumbling piece by piece since her colleagues knew that she was leaving.
She had decided to take photographs of street artists and tell their stories in a blog with no monetization strategy in place. It was like jumping in the dark. She didn’t have huge savings but some faith in herself.
There is no more dangerous person for the status quo than the one who believes in oneself.
Did her act of taking control of her life challenge her peers? If it did, she didn’t know.
She was as vulnerable as a mother in her first few weeks of unplanned pregnancy.
Like such a mother, she sensed a dramatic change in the behavior of her colleagues towards her.
First, they tried to make her feel that they were with her all the way. Then some of them tried to make her believe that she should not behave emotionally and tried to instill doubts in her.
Eventually, when she didn’t accept their common wisdom, they termed her as a person becoming increasingly emotionally unstable.
It was really difficult for her to digest such a response from her peers as she expected to seek support from them, not this.
For a moment, she even reconsidered her decision. But it dawned upon her that her colleagues are simple people like her, dealing with their own monsters, and any weird or strange thing like jumping in the dark scares them.
In that moment, she got a newfound courage to send her resignation letter.
PS – This is the 23rd day of my journey to write everyday for next one year.
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