What’s your favorite word?
Words have a very unique way of blending into our lives and before we know we become attached to some of them in a manner where they become the naturally preferred part of what we write and speak and quite fairly a part of who we are as well.
It can be a little difficult staying along those favourite set of words that one begins with, since a lot of grooming goes into what to speak and what not to speak at educational level and then there are further sessions of grooming that await at professional level as well.
But I think the words that truly stick are the ones we start to associate with when we begin to find that settled identity in life with a little more freedom with our balanced thoughts and expression or one could always be a stand-up comedian to speak whatever he/she wants (I am truly envious).
Somewhere in my mind I wanted to get into the creative part of writing, so I was attracted to words like ‘petrichor’, but they had little use in everyday life unless one intends to keep using them and referring to them no matter what (like I did).
Little had I known I would end up working with school books just for the sake of working with books but they despite what one might think, involve a lot of technicalities and a very different approach to creativity with the focus on how it would impact the learning of children of a certain grade and also focus on whether things align with the educational framework suggested by the government.
So, that was a very different boat to sail off on, but eventually I was back to where I wanted to be, to the side of writing which offered me more creative freedom to fly right through the clouds or dive into the beautiful depths of the ocean through the very words in mind.
Since things happened eventually, and I am a person who has a little inclination towards believing the eventuality of things, I would say my favourite word is ‘eventual’, and you have no idea how much I had to be mindful of not writing the word before mentioning it in these last two paragraphs.
Written by Anuran Chatterji
Early Morning Memories 