From Personal Pages to National Records: A Mirror Writing Story
When I first started writing mirror way, I had no idea I was unknowingly practicing one of the most primitive forms of coding known to humankind. Hello and welcome to my new write-up on mirror writing, don’t worry, here I am not going to write anything ulta 😁, but I will tell you how my mirror writing journey started. I was very young when I began writing a personal diary. I was in fifth standard. I was quiet by nature, shy, and had a small circle of friends. Conversations required a lot of efforts, and, to me, silence felt economical. So I found my comfort in pen and paper. The diary slowly became my safest place. The little me wrote everything, literally everything, daily incidents, innocent dramas, things that made me laugh, things that hurt, things I didn’t know how to say aloud. The diary listened without interrupting. Over the years, it grew along with me. By the time I reached twelfth standard, I had filled five or six diaries. Looking back, they were dramatic, emotional,...