About Me

Hi Readers,

This is my first post in Vocal. Before beginning anything I believe that we might need a kind of self-introduction. So I thought my first post can be about me.

What is so much about me. I am just a person to whom many of you can relate. That was a fact that I realized too late. I am 29 years old and working as a content writer who dreams much but never acts to such dreams. Ironically, that is what the majority of us do. I hope I am right.

I heard about Vocal through LinkedIn and thought of giving it a try here. That is how this started. But before that how did I start writing content. That is another funny story to share. While I was doing my graduation, I was the only person who wrote applications for all my friends. Let it be a leave application or anything else, I was the person who curate content into those papers back then. I liked it when others came to me to write for them.

Something that started as a habit later continued. My services expanded from classmates to family and relatives. I started to write content for websites. I was never paid for that, but I enjoyed writing content. So I did it. But I was not worthy enough to be paid back then, because I lacked enough knowledge. I never knew what was plagiarism in those days.

When writing made me happy, eventually I started to understand more about it, and finally, I decided to take it as my profession. With nearly three years of experience, I have pretty enough stories to share. I think Vocal can be my apt choice to share my stories, both professional and personal.

Stay tuned to continue reading.

Edit: I saved the above portion and send it for Vocal to publish. One day I received a mail, saying my article was rejected by Vocal. I was like what!!!

I didn't make any big statements here, still, that was my words from my heart. I write from my heart very little. I like to speak, but I am underconfident to do that. I like to write, but not always do words support me the way I wished they did for me.

Writing for my client is far easier for me, but writing for myself was always a difficult task. So I thought Vocal did not approve my content because it lacked quality. And with all efforts, I opened the mail to find the reason they mentioned. It was simply because my content word count should be at least 600.

That was easy, thought me. And then that is what I started writing after this edit version.

Maybe my first article would be a waste of time for many. But still, I want to write and make this a content of 600 words and get approved. So that can make me happy.

Coming back to this about me, as I mentioned earlier, I am just a person like you. Now, why do I say that? Here are the reasons.

1. I overthink some situations and make myself cry for them, even after accepting the fact that I am not a reason for that situation.

2. I have several dreams in my mind, but I was not able to pursue them or at least speak about them- just because I knew neither my parents nor my family supported them.

3. I am a feminist, but never accepted it publicly because I knew the society that surrounded me will never take it positively.

4. The saddest part is that I know I am an individual with a self-identity that needs to be respected. But I am never taking an action for it.

These are just a few lists. We will discuss them in detail, in my coming sessions. Many of you can relate to what I said. It is difficult to break the norm. I have not done it yet. Hope I can do that once.

And Naufiya is signing off for now...