A Writer’s Remorse

Why do readers always give a metaphorical meaning to everything?

What if I only mean a simple banana, a simple pencil, you are the one that gives meaning to it.

Most of you give it a phallic meaning.

Then, if I am pointing a deep and critical topic some of you absorb it as something so shallow.

One should be open to works for improvement of oneself. A writer cannot always choose a topic with a common theme- for the all to understand.

To understand the meaning of a work, one must look to create that meaning and experience. One doesn’t need experience, the work is an experience. While you can put your own ideas and experiences into a piece of work, you are at the same time gaining new understanding through the text. We allow you readers to interpret a text any way you want, but text do exist you cannot just change the meaning of the work. One must read a work and understand it with immunity, and setting aside one’s own culture, traditions, status, personality, and other.

A Reader’s Remorse

You cannot give us an exact meaning because we have different meanings for each and every word.

Pork could be something delicious and imagined as tasty to some, but for Muslims it is something sinful and disgusting.

How can I relate to your work about mountain climbing if I’m not into it? You cannot blame me.

Each of us have different ideas about things such a suspense, curiosity, or surprise. You cannot dictate us on when to experience those feelings. Maybe you could influence me with feelings in the way you write and control me, but in the end, it is my decision that will prevail. Our culture, traditions, status,and personality will always come to us while we are reading, because that compose the “me”.

Remember the cliché, you cannot please everyone.

In the end, we are the consumers, we will choose what to read and what not to.