{"id":1776,"date":"2024-11-23T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T04:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2024-11-23T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T04:31:27","slug":"what-is-unknown-is-the-freedom-of-remaining-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/23\/what-is-unknown-is-the-freedom-of-remaining-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"What is unknown is the freedom of remaining unknown!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real measure of your wealth is how much you&#8217;d be worth if you lost all your money. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something very freeing about being\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>anonymous<\/em><\/span>\u00a0because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Life wouldn&#8217;t be so precious, if there never was an end &#8220;..!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of the above quotes have been attributed to no one in particular. So, it is to the credit of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>anonymous.<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And because they are all so insightful and inspiring, our clamor to know more about the person behind it only increases.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._K._Rowling\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">J K Rowling<\/span><\/em><\/a> had become the world&#8217;s highest selling author, she stunned the book world by revealing that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Cuckoos-Calling-Cormoran-Strike-Novel\/dp\/0316206849\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> The Cuckoo Calling<\/em><\/span><\/a> was her book, written under the pseudonym <a href=\"https:\/\/robert-galbraith.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Robert Galbraith<\/em><\/span><\/a>. She said she wanted to keep this fact a secret a little longer because being far lesser known or even <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>being an unknown Robert Galbraith<\/em><\/span> was such a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>liberating experience<\/em><\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agatha_Christie\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Agatha Christie<\/em><\/span><\/a> wrote sixty-six highly successful detective novels under her own name. She also wrote six romance novels under the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agathachristie.com\/en\/about-christie\/family-memories\/the-mary-westmacotts\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Mary Westmacott<\/em><\/span><\/a>. Christie wanted to explore another genre without the baggage of her reputation pulling her down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t want the credit for writing them. They love the freedom to experiment and make mistakes. They simply want to enjoy their writing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/The-freedom-of-being-an-amateur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>If we are not accountable for something, we work with freedom<\/em><\/span>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s good to put your ego in a box under the bed. <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">There is freedom in being nobody<\/span><\/em>. 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&#8217; expectations but, most importantly, free you of your own expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; It is that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what&#8217;s happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who&#8217;s able to create. &#8220;- <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyndi_Lauper\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Cyndi Lauper<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;The real measure of your wealth is how much you&#8217;d be worth if you lost all your money. &#8221; &nbsp; &#8220;I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.&#8221; &nbsp; \u201cThere is something very freeing about being\u00a0anonymous\u00a0because nothing is expected of you; nothing is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/23\/what-is-unknown-is-the-freedom-of-remaining-unknown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is unknown is the freedom of remaining unknown!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}