“The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ”
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
“There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.”
” Life wouldn’t be so precious, if there never was an end “..!!
All of the above quotes have been attributed to no one in particular. So, it is to the credit of anonymous. And because they are all so insightful and inspiring, our clamor to know more about the person behind it only increases.
When J K Rowling had become the world’s highest selling author, she stunned the book world by revealing that The Cuckoo Calling was her book, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. She said she wanted to keep this fact a secret a little longer because being far lesser known or even being an unknown Robert Galbraith was such a liberating experience. Agatha Christie wrote sixty-six highly successful detective novels under her own name. She also wrote six romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott. Christie wanted to explore another genre without the baggage of her reputation pulling her down.
There are many such examples of writers. A pseudonym gave them the freedom to write without the shackles of their reputation and an opportunity to explore genres that are not generally taken seriously. They don’t want the credit for writing them. They love the freedom to experiment and make mistakes. They simply want to enjoy their writing.
If we are not accountable for something, we work with freedom. We experiment in a way we would not normally have the nerve to. Sometimes our egos get in the way and tie us up in knots.
Sometimes it’s good to put your ego in a box under the bed. There is freedom in being nobody. We live in a culture where everyone is obsessed with getting credit for every little thing they do. Working in anonymity will free you of others’ expectations but, most importantly, free you of your own expectations.
” It is that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what’s happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who’s able to create. “- Cyndi Lauper