Fiction

Katie Kitamura is a novelist who said this about fiction. More broadly, fiction can act as an antidote to authoritarianism. If authoritarianism thrives when people are isolated, fiction brings people together, she says. “In the most basic way, writing is about opening yourself to another person’s mind. The most intimate thing I do on a daily basis is pick up a book and open myself to another person.” And, while the Trump administration may be forcing one way of life on the world, fiction’s job is, as always, to remind people that there are “other ways of being”. With the anti woke rhetoric in the US and anti Sinic,LGBT and Islamophobia,it isnt safe for travellers of such categories to travel to the US as the otherness face backlash of hate crimes n potential detention on trumped up charges. I find that being alone with my thoughts is an antidote to the anxiety that ruminations bring about.Somehow the individual feels that his life is no longer in his hands but bound.by forces beyond his control whether its being shaped by career demands,family obligations or societal expectations. All the multiple roles disappear when you delve into the inner world and in a way,you come to face the inner demons and find out they were merely shadows not substantial. I feel that out of the chaos and disorder that living brings,being able to write is a way to create something new out of the depths of darkness.Out of something i heard from gossips or a chance encounter with a stranger or something i read in the news,a spark lights up and ideas flow as if it has a life of its own.My dream is one day one of these writing can be reinterpreted as a graphic novel manga or be turned into a play or movie so im just too crazy to even consider that this dream will ever come to materialize and my digital footprint will one day be erased and be buried by the passage of time.