Figure: Impromptu writing on the prompt “Seized”

An immersive experience, where before I write, I was taught to observe, feel, imagine. I learnt from multiple reading sources, and read a few inspiring pieces. Each day, we wrote small excerpts to express our perspective of the commons. I took freedom to explore the constraints of women in public spaces and animals’ rights to publicness. Below is another prompt we responded to at the end of a class.

Those rocks are spinning around Saturn with mighty speed. An illusory ring is created for us to see.They do not rest, keeping on their way till eternity. You and I are also spinning. We are moving on this eternal orbit, creating our illusion of commons, our individuality bringing striations in the ring of “commonness” that we are forming. But we are far from a mere rock, beings with conscience,feelings and a heart, one that births empathy.

Hey you! My fellow commoner! Can you stop and rest for a while to think about your neighbors in this limitless space? Do you feel her when a fellow woman speaks her mind while walking the same path as you? Does a blind, handicapped commoner strike your attention and you lend a hand to help? Do you take good care of the space you share with others as you use it? Does it occur to you that your decisions leave a substantial amount of footprint on this very orbit you are following?

I ask you to contemplate, for I am suffering. We are collectively suffering because you forget your boundaries in this shared sphere. Your thoughtlessness made my trajectory full of hindrances, I cannot spin in the same pace as you go, and on days, I am forced to stay at rest. I am absent when you are having a cup of tea at your favorite roadside tea stall, you do not notice? My absence causes the striations to disappear, leaving a mundane ring, for the individuality that I bring to the course is missing.

Figure: Practicing to draft statements at the moment.