It's all about the romance!!!!

No, I am not talking about a love affair or a love story, not even of the supposed atmosphere that surrounds this seven letter word………… I am talking about “ROMANCE”.

Rolling your eyes? Well, I would suggest you opened that dictionary [or used the Internet to access dictionary.com maybe]. I’m talking about the noun form of this word that we all use only in reference to the matters of the heart that make us blush……..The meaning that states the word romance to stand for an ‘imaginative story’, or maybe even the other meaning of this controversial word that implies ‘to present unrealistically’.

All these years, ever since I started writing my diary [in the seventh standard to be more precise] I have wondered; as to what it takes to be a good writer. About, what is it that one should learn maybe even practice to perfect this literary form of art. Go to writing school? Or how about summer camps on how to imagine?

What is it that gave birth to Harry Potter and made J.K.Rowling if nothing else, but an extremely rich woman. What is it that gives people like her or even Emily Bronte their own unique yet fascinatingly stunning styles of narration. How is it that writers manage to have this exceptional talent to bring to life the most unimaginable scenarios, to make us feel and relate the most intense emotions? It is a writer who gave birth to a vampire, a writer that got us to fear this blood sucking in human entity, and yet again a writer who made every girl crave to fall in love with a hazel eyed ‘vegetarian vampire’.

Romeo and Juliet are probably the most romantic of lovers ever to be talked about to such great extents, Mark Anthony [Julius Caesar] a crowd steering Orator who changed the fate of Rome and civilizations that followed, and Cinderella the most favourite of all princesses and the reason why every girl wishes for glass sandals to stack in her closet. But, in the end they are all products of a writer’s fantasy. Their speeches, their behavior, their stories which every reader delights in and the coups which become the basis of every daydreamers role plays are the results of a story tellers tale……………

Everyone of us has a story to narrate, a poem to recite and a verse to rhyme but while some can express it in black, blue and white on paper others can not even successfully decipher it into sentences inside their heads; leave alone penning it down.

It is not about how awesome your English or whatever language you choose to write in is, its not about how much you scored on your essays, nor is it about where you went and what you saw or what you did, and it definitely is not about what you learned or are learning…………..

It is about what you felt and how you wish to express it, it is about how profoundly you can relate to it and how enriching the whole experience of sharing a point of view is. It is just;

All about the romance
[and if you are a reader or writer of love stories and romance in it’s original and famously known sense…then pun intended ;)]