Void Thoughts

It was an accident—stumbling upon my draft folder in Medium. Lucky that I did though, as just last week I had hastily jotted down a piece while I was out, fully intending to publish it later that day.

Like most pieces in that particular folder, this one too would’ve been destined to live a life of eternity in there, until this morning when I accidentally opened the draft section and found the post smiling back at me. It was a short piece with a photo already added, ready to be published. Though I was not exactly impressed with my writing, I quickly proofread it and, without wasting a second, hit publish.

I am grateful I did.

With that action, the number of posts in my draft folder decreased from 104 to 103.

As I scrolled through the list, I encountered pieces—some half-written, some fully developed—from last year, two years ago, and even further back. Some of these I had initially intended to publish immediately. How had I overlooked them? It’s astonishing to realize that what feels like yesterday was actually two years ago.

This discovery got me thinking – the stories tucked away in my draft folder paint different pictures of me – the one who creates and forgets, the one who is unable to finish the story, the one who keeps circling the same loop. Funny, only I get to read that. More often than not, none of them get a read – not the drafts or the life hiding in the draft section.

But now, I’m determined to tackle that backlog. I aim to bring down that list at least by half in the coming days.

Let’s see where this journey takes me!

© Vinitha Dileep

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