One Is Greater Than Zero
In that moment, I finally knew: I shall become…
The date was 6th of January, 2021 and I had published my first blog. Seven months from then, the month of July is coming to a close and I thought it might be a good time to share a few something with you. First off let’s see the progress we have made with this blog.
Briefly stating, starting in January we used to get somewhere around 10–12 views on each article, of which only half of them would actually read the content. February onwards the numbers doubled and maintained that ground for sometime. In June, the numbers doubled again and now we get some 40 views per article. The read ratio, however, still floats around the 50–65% mark.
How did it all begin?
Well, now that we are over the stats we can talk about the more interesting stuff here: How did it begin? And for that we need to go back to 11th grade and me lying on my bed one December night. Scrolling down my YouTube feed I came across a video by Gary Vaynerchuk. You can watch the complete video below.
I didn’t know him back then so I had no clue what the video was about. I played it, and listened to him. And he said something that was revolutionary to me.
You suck at a ton of [censored]. Good, so does everybody else. You’re also probably pretty [censored] rad at something. Try as many things as possible until you figure out what you’re rad at and you like and go [censored] do that for the rest of your life and stop giving a [censored] about everybody else. -Gary Vee.
And with that, I started my journey of finding that something. The first thing I did was writing shayaris on Instagram. Subhadipmaji knows. I did for one good year, and while it was fun, it wasn’t really my thing.
The following year I picked up logo designing and that particular one was a significantly better choice. I created some very fascinating pieces, as my friends have told. Not the one to brag, but I even got myself paid for one particular design for an ice cream parlor based in Singapore.
And then I finally knew…
After spending a few months with logo designing I settled with the fact that I don’t really like to give in the effort for it. Taking that as a red flag I stopped making more of them. After some brainstorming, I realized I really liked stories. Cutting time from my studies to read story books, watching new films, reading them on the internet. In fact, I had been writing stories all along, be it for annual magazine of my school or assignments. I just didn’t knew it could be something deeper than getting the job done. And yeah, I stuck with it. Started a blog of my own to share the work and began the year 2020.
Locked down and everything I thought about reading a comic, got myself one, Batman: Shaman, to be particular. And it blew my mind! I was overwhelmed with it. This world of comic books was something new to me, completely unexplored. And I started exploring and I really liked it, started writing some fan fictions. It wasn’t easy and the me I was, I’d already started contemplating on giving up. Then one night, in the October of 2020 when I was deject, one the verge of giving up, I received an omen and told me not to quit. In that moment, I finally knew: I shall become… a comic book writer.
The Beginning
That was October and we have taken only baby steps. You read in the beginning about the performance of the blog, and you might wonder is the effort worth it? And to answer that, you need to know why I am doing it. The answer to that is pretty simple, and cannot be better expressed than in the words of Irrfan Khan,
I think we forget things if we have no one to tell them to.
And that, is the simplest reason why I write this blog: This is a story I want to tell. And that’s why those stats don’t weigh me down, they don’t matter. Even if just one person claps, even if just one person tells me he liked what I wrote, that will always be worth it. Because, One is always greater than Zero.
