Blogger Indonesia of the Week (54): Devi Girsang

How to have a good blog content? How to be a good and insightful blogger? Or in other words how to be a good writer? Devi Girsang, though implicitly, says loud and clear: “Love reading and writing!” She’s right. While reading is a must for recharging your rechargeable brain in order to keep updated with the latest information of your interests and be a well-informed person, writing is the best way to keep whatever we read and absorb and then build it up further into a totally new idea or a convergence of various thoughts.

Yet, another factor as mentioned by the Atmajaya University medical student Devi should not be ignored: love to read and write. You can still have the chance to be a good reader and prolific writer even if you don’t have love of doing them. But to be a big writer love and passion are a must. Paulo Coelho in an interview with Nisha Husain from the BBC a few months back said that without love and passion of what he’s doing, his first novel and most popular ones,The Alchemist, would never have come into reality.At least, if reading is your love and passion, your talking and blogging will benefit many because it must’ve been insightful, even if you haven’t published any writing in a conventional medium which is just a matter of time.Devi Girsang has written several published articles including fictional short stories. Yet, the more important thing is she’s just a 20-year-old girl living in Jakarta, an Indonesian capital city known more for its having-fun & party-loving youth. That should be a strong message to other youngster in the capital and other province cities as well that “fun” should not necessarily be associated with laid-back attitude and unmeaningful activities; that “love, passion and fun” could mean both ways: hardworking or self-destruct.Making comparison to a better personality is profoundly important for anyone, young and old generation, to improve one’s personality towards progress. And that’s why sucessful personalities always write their (auto)-biographies to be read and whose paths are to be followed. In some other parts of the world, (auto)-biography of a prominent individual is always sold-out. It’s not the case in Indonesia.

Let’s face it, we like and enjoy reading and watching a celebrity-gossip news or a junky soap opera more than reading or watching something more useful like, say, current affairs news or Discovery Channel.