Expression

There is a world within all of us, hidden from almost everyone, that is looking for a way to find expression. While some of us are able to express our true feelings the way we really feel, the majority of us lack that ability. When I listen to Galib, I wonder not only at the depth of feelings that this man possessed, but I also marvel at the beautiful manner in which he was able to put it all across. Was this man able to do it impromptu, or did he write, edit and then finally refine. I for one would like to believe that he must have been able to do it without really doing what most of us lesser mortals need to do. Richness of Urdu language, besides the fact that he wrote in a language that was his mother tongue must have helped for sure. Same was the case with Shakespeare, Keats, Wordsworth, Milton and many others. Does that mean that we can do better if we restrict ourselves to one language, preferably the mother tongue? Is this also the reason for there being so much of creative writing by people who write in their mother tongue? We mess it up, or at best do a sub-optimal job every time, because our thoughts are in the mother tongue, while we try to write in a different language.But then, what is our confidence level in the mother tongue itself?