When I was in school, I was the only one in class who got into trouble for using the word “ma”. I still get a kick out of it.
For a while in my life, I was a huge fan of a certain television show. It was called ‘The Office.’ And I still have this image of myself walking into the office, and I’m thinking to myself, “Okay, this is where I get my stuff,” and I’m just about ready to hit the ground running and start my own business. Well two years into working at the office, I was fired for using the word ma.
I don’t know how to feel about this. I’ve always loved the word maa. The way they sound and say them. But this is just too weird. This is like asking a guy to describe his penis.
This is the first time I’ve had to explain my work to anybody. I was hired to write about the experience of working at The Office, and to this day I can’t look at my notes without tearing up a little bit inside. The whole office was my first job. It was such a weird time in my life. I was only 23. When I was younger, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be a writer or a lawyer.
It’s a very strange time in the life of a writer. You’re on a mission to make the world a better place. You’re not sure if you want to be a writer or a lawyer. The choice is not just yours, but yours alone. And the only way you can make that choice is to write. So the choice is to write, or to be a lawyer or a writer. Thats all.
I remember sitting in a room with two teachers who were discussing my life and writing. I was a bit torn between my love of writing, which I had done for a good part of my life, and my love of being a lawyer, which I had never really loved. Finally, after much deliberation, I decided that I would be a lawyer. I dont remember the whole conversation, but I was given a couple of weeks at the firm. I remember sitting there during those weeks and writing.
I could write about writing and writing. But I have to say that there’s also writing that can be so beautiful and so inspiring that its beauty and inspiration can be so overwhelming that it can make me feel exhausted. I wrote, “There are some people who spend their time writing, and for once I thought I would. I mean, all my life I thought there was something wrong with me, and I was never gonna write. Now I’m a writer.
The reason I was on Deathloop was for writing a story about the time-honored trick taught by the great magician Shylock the magician. The trick was to get a pair of rabbit ears and make them stand out against the backdrop of a tree. This is the trick that I took from them on, and it was a great way to do it.
In Mulayam Singh Yadav’s memoir “My Only Hope” he reveals that his wife used to do this trick with him. He explains that she used to say to him, “Don’t write anything about me in the book. I used to do the same trick with you a lot.” It’s a real thing that I read into her story that I don’t think she knew about until I read it myself a few years ago.
I’ve always been fascinated with the way people use words to express themselves. This is especially true in English. In the past I’ve made the mistake of thinking that “I” was the same thing as “I can” or “I ought to do something”. In fact I’d argue that “I” is just a contraction of “I can”.
