How Did I Fall In Love With Ink ?

Once upon a time in my life, as a matter of fact all my life i have been bold enough to accept critism as well as endless compliments on my talent as to whether my writings and expressions are mere fiction or that i am truly gifted.

During schooldays though i have lots of friends but i am always alone. I am bad at expressing my dissatisfaction or good intent verbally and most of the time people tend to mis-interprete my reasoning and my points therefore i grow up befriending ink and paper . In ability to write, i find peace of mind , i found my solitude.

It all started from writing love letters for my friends till it is my turn to correspond letters from a very special girl , my first love, my puppy love. It was during that year, that fall, we met and she seem to be able to read my thoughts without me having to put them unto paper.

As any guy my age would react , at that time i thought it was love at first sight. I grow up only to realise that it was merely an infactuation. I enjoyed her encouragements, enjoyed her company and the way she would wait for me everyday after school ,after everyone has left the school grounds, just two souls offering ears to each other. I enjoyed the times we spent but as i mature in life, i understood that it was just pure friendship.

Gifted? such strong word with many interpretations. During my schooling days, English teachers are usually fond of me or perhaps i should say they are fond of my essays. I recall at the age of eleven, my tuition teacher refused to believe at the beginning that the essay on American slavery , the struggles of Abraham Lincoln and civil rights for the African American is my composition. My teacher shook her head with disbelief giving me a remark i can never forget " Nick, you write with a lot of emotions, if i do not know you, i would think its written by a black student"

During secondary years, i begin to recite poetry and later on begin composing pieces of my own. As i write i tend to fall deeper into my writings and at the age of adolescence all i can think about are issues on romance and friendship thus each of my early days poems are mostly based on love , heartbreak experiences or a pile of compliments on different ladies. I am influenced by the ways of the poets from the olden days painting a beauty out a lady through writings.

My bold approach in writing and delivering poems to ladies grow more constant during college and have caused a great deal of misunderstanding among some ladies and some of my friends to doubt my work of being an instrument of seduction, cupid's arrows or more precisely flirtatious and deceiving.

I do not have a specific pattern to descibe my style of compositions. I do not think unworthily of those who doubted my writings for those constructive critism that i have received helped build my confidence and motivated me to expand my knowledge to be a true artist and not merely on love poems. Hence, to all readers of my writings, be it praises or criticism, thanks a lot, you guys have been of great help.