About Me — Aditi Khandelwal. Writing is like meditation to me
By: Aditi K
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Let’s start from the start

My writing journey began in school days where I wrote a poem and some creative articles on eco-friendliness and recycling for a local newspaper. Yes, a small deed for mother earth actually helped me realize that I love to write. As I grew up, I wanted to peruse creative writing but see in reality it’s difficult to persuade parents sometimes. And Indian parents are tough. They actually succeeded in brainwashing the 17 years old me into taking engineering in computer science as my technical degree. Being one of the good performers, I actually managed in getting into a decent college, good grades, and a job that earned me a handsome amount of money. As I moved out of my parent’s house in 2007, all these years my writing never left me. As I made new friends, I made it a habit to write letters to them on their birthdays, anniversaries and other special occasions.

Ten years back and ten kgs lighter

Somewhere in between

The twenties is an age where you get ready to enter into your adulthood and the same happened with me. The adventures of life happened. The early twenties to make a career, 9 to 5 job, marriage, financial security etc. Now in 2020 when I am 30, somewhere deep inside the heart I realised one day that I am actually an old school person who just loves to write. In the past decade, amongst my different jobs in the infrastructure development sector, a small freelance work done with one of the publication houses in Mumbai has been the closest to my heart.

Don’t look at me, look at the London Eye

The maturity curve

I think, there were emotions being added in my writing at every stage of my life.

Marriage added the flavour of romance, love and attachment.

A full-time corporate job added rigour and discipline.

My travel to different cities added tonnes of adventurous experiences.

My new house added a sense of responsibility.

Parenting added the flavour of happiness and joy.

And fighting some devastating unexpected accidents added gratitude.

Pieces of my life put together

And in between all this, I had my own ups and downs. I was detected with anxiety disorders in the past but today while the entire article my anxiety actually did not jump at all. I felt a kind of calmness this time. I had seen a movie in my childhood days where the actor of the film used to maintain a daily diary and I was amazed to see the scene wherein his shelf he had arranged all his daily diaries year wise for some 20 odd years. That was something that I really wanted back then and thought my future would be sorted with it. Maybe it seems sorted now!

The year ahead I plan to be a motivator to those who are struggling like me somewhere deep inside in choosing whether to take up writing as their full time career.

Start writing guys – because in writing there are no shortcuts, you just need to write.

In the last few months, my writing has helped me with my PTSD. And in this decade long journey of doing what mattered to the others here, I am writing a few words about myself just to tell you all, that I write because I love to write. There are very rare moments in my entire day when I don’t think upon documenting various observations, facts and inline them with my thoughts.

I am a constant Reader and Writing is like meditation to me – Where I tend think about one fact for a longer period of time.

And guys this meditative technique is so addictive now that I think, I might not be able to QUIT!

So here I am guys, I am Aditi Khandelwal and I am a creative writer. My surroundings provoke my writing. I want something to be there for everyone in my blog. Read my articles on my medium profile: @aditikhandelwal_84873

And if it’s not there drop me a message. Let’s fill in the gaps. Let’s get connected. You can drop me an email on aditikwl@gmail.com.