Who Are You?!

greenrun (66) in contest • 7 years ago (edited)

That is one of the hardest questions for me to answer. I have tried to answer it, and every time I do I come up with tens of answers. I am a non-writer that writes on steemit, a non-creative guy that creates. I am the handy boy who received the greatest shock of his life literally when at the age of 7 I tried plugging my mom's blender to a socket using the spokes of my bike as a helper. All I wanted then was to impress my mom and thereby be given the "job" of cleaning the blender after mixing the cake with it.

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That is a job that everyone wants to be a part of the team handling it. I have given up in rendering such "help" which would put me in harm's way for a proposed benefit.

Every day I tried to be the best of Green, being Green hasn't been a walk in the park. Life is unfair, anyone who expects it to be fair had already set up himself for failing. I try not to compete with anybody I only compete with myself. This may sound easy but I assure you it is not. I am my own worst critic, so when others bring in their "acidic" criticism which is probably intended to get me down, I laugh. I laugh because I have already told myself a worse version of that.

Growing up, I have been fascinated with the idea of being a celebrated author. Even though, I was struggling with the English language, as it is not my first language. How can I be a celebrated author if I cannot write in English? Translation. Yeah, that is a possibility, I can write in my mother tongue and get translated in every language possible. Chinua Achebe did it in Things Fall Apart and had the single book translated into more than 50 languages.

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What topic/genre do I write on? Then, I checked and found virtually every topic I wanted to write on has been written by other well-known authors. How then do I become celebrated if all I am is a fraud that copies others works? Amidst all this turmoil, fate was just standing there with its all-knowing smile cooking up a twist that would make sure I never write.

Then there was steemit, suddenly I, a nonwriter that writes can now write and be rewarded for it! Sometimes real life can be stranger than fiction. So, my happiness was beyond compare when I saw that you can write here and people would get to see it. I do enjoy the mundane things of life: watching the sunset, knowing somewhere in the world someone would pay a $1m to see the sun. But they can't because they are blind. I am weird, oh yeah! Tell me what I don't already know!

I love DIY, I can spend $10 to do a DIY of $5, most people from my country may call me that typical pennywise pound foolish guy. But the joy I derive in doing it just about pays for the other $5. After all, my Dad used to say that there is joy in madness which only the madman knows.

This is an entry into for the Steemit's Untalented Contests by @surpassinggoogle where every contestant is a winner. The offer is just too irresistible to be ignored or passed up.

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7 years ago by greenrun (66)

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surpassinggoogle (76) · 7 years ago (edited)

I told you and @prettycynthia once: "the best writers aren't writers". You are finding out partly what i meant, by yourself.

I never read books in reality, when it comes to writing stuff. I don't know any of the books i have seen you mention. And when people rhyme their stuff to make poems, i went teoms with t being terry and beauty came out in the form of bizarreness. It is more about the things you can see that even the world can't. So when people go scolding a kid for always wearing their flip flops wrongly, i saw instead beautiful intelligence in that, the kids tend to do the wrong act correctly every time. While people were busy going for the fallen mango everytime, a select few picked up on the study of gravity. Your edge is in your substance. If that grows, you will be writer anyways regardless of language without barriers to entry. I use the example of a may weather and a mohammed ali, both boxers but one is on another level and may weather won't doubt it. Look at a mourinho in his presence and perhaps, a wenger and you will instantly see stark difference and if they have to compete even in writing, i am sure one will stand out over the other, not cos they where writers. As for being your nemesis, you can channel that into advantageousness and bring yourself into world-classness. Look for your edge and hone that and if i speak to you in one solid conversation, i can tell you your edge. "green run already says alot" and that is why i added "drawing your username" into the curriculum of the contest. And i apply your username into the stunts of my tiny convo with you to help you see new ways to play. Thank you for participating. You may not know how much you have learned but i try to pass so much to you in my small comment. Substance when it becomes substance isn't easily swayed. So if twas me, even if everyone says, you are ripe terry, write a book doesn't mean i may write a book, for i may go another route. I thought i was writer. I would sway everyone with my tiny text messages and handwritten letter. i was writing will you marry me proposals and these wives will say yes but i wasn't writer afterall. And you may not be writer either. Now, you may be a writer but pace things. So you doubting mind can be put to good use too. Read this comment closely, understand its concepts and context; look at it, more as life info and you will grasp.

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greenrun (66) · 7 years ago

This is deep. The more you look, the more you see. I understand what you mean. It even surprises me that I do get what you mean. That being said, I think I missed the part of the contest requiring drawing a username. But truth be told I've lost my gift of drawing. Used to be pretty good growing up. Somewhere in my teens the gift went poof! My attention to details may be the death of me :)