One word

Can one word change the world of a person? Why not? I have heard a punctuation mark made a world of difference in one person’s life or death (!)

I remember reading somewhere. A person has been given death punishment. A note comes from the king’s office. ‘Hang him, not leave him’.

I do not remember who altered the note. When the hangman receives the note it read ‘Hang him not, leave him’.

Just the displacement of the comma let the person to escape death at that moment. What happened later is not known...

The other effective use of a punctuation mark is when someone is talking to a person who has done some blunder and still got away with it. ‘You are a great person!’ when the other person exclaims, you can see the sarcasm dripping in that sentence.

A writer would be wondering what to write. He has gone into a long and deep hibernation. A Rip Van Winkle. Someone tries to wake him up. Ah, at last! The writer has come to his senses.

Why anyone should write? Money? Fame? Or both? Or is it something else? As long as it is a legal, moral reason everything is fine.

But trying to put down some other person by one’s writing is wrong, ethically. A few people make it a part of their income; it is a subject to be discussed separately.

Why all this hullaballoo? At least for a writer? Especially when he has gone underground for no reason... or reasons known only to him!

Every day he was wondering ‘What to write?’

Today he is wondering ‘What to write today?’

Yes, ‘today’ is the word I am referring to. The word ‘today’ has made a world of difference to me.

All these days I was wondering what to write... Today, I am thinking eagerly, what to write today?

Nice makeover... as far as I am concerned!