Why I Write
What is the purpose?
I write for several reasons, and I’ve reasoned on it for a while now. I think I’ve come up with a decent set of my driving factors which you may find interesting.
I have a need for to write, which is interesting because I'm not a good writer as you may notice. I’m ok with that now. I've adopted it as a style, and I’ll blame the rest on artistic license. Importantly though, I suspect it may be more useful to some people to read a non-writer’s words as opposed to the words of the greats. Maybe it’s an insight into our need for self-expression from a someone who shouldn’t be writing. I’m in route to say what I need to say without fear of imperfection. I'm not perfect. That's the human condition, and I’m happily a part of it.
I write to help sort out my thoughts. Everything is happening so fast these days. Writing helps rest my nerves which are on fire from outrageous misfortune. I base a lot of my writing off aspects of the world that I feel society pushes against us figuring out. I feel like I’m doing my part by helping open the conversations that solve our deeper problems. The misfortunate aspects of our society that build into outrage are all the same as they have ever been. Old tricks are the best tricks. Nothing really ever changes, and the wise fight back the darkness by bringing the same lessons to the people of their time. That is our job as thinkers.
I feel writing helps me clear the muddy water of our confusing world. I get nervous when the waters get too muddy, and now is definitely time. If you feel like the world is too complicated, you may feel better to write and share your thoughts. Maybe you will enjoy some part of my writings and would be encouraged to join the fight. The pen is mightier than the sword. Simple people are the ones who write the most daring or intriguing thoughts in the end. Who cares what the professionals write? Who cares what the elite write? The meek are the real power in this world. If you like the way that sounds, then pick up the pen.
Aside from our salvation and disbanding the outrageous misfortune, I write because I feel like we very confused about something important. I don’t know exactly what that important thing is, but I can feel it. We are not whole. I’m perpetually bothered by it. I have always felt that the mainstream projected world wasn’t real. I feel if I can say the truest thing possible then I will have created something truly beautiful in the face of great confusion and impossible odds.
Isn’t that what the real tragedy of life and source of our fears? Our inability to show others what is on our minds or what we see. The tragedy of knowing we are separate. I plan to say something beautiful and raw with compassion. Whatever it turns out to be.
I want to say something true that people feel or recognize. Something which is so simply true that it's been forgotten in the storm of the outer world. Something we all seek unknowingly that we can feel striking into our hearts when someone gets close to saying it. Whatever it may be.
My thought articles are that and nothing more. The tiny truths we operate on subconsciously get masked by our fears and social obligations. I feel that stepping through my fear by diving into the deep is the ultimate form of compassion and care for others. Honesty is the basis of respect for others. Honesty with one’s self is the basis of self-respect and the trajectory of the truly adventurous.
The last reason I’ll mention that I write is something that I’ve alluded to in the beginning of this thought. I want to show others that self-expression is paramount and expression is imperfect like us. Equally important to the well thought out things we can safely be sure of are the things we can’t work out easily that still must be said. Conversation will be set free.
The deepest things are impossible for us to accurately reason on, and that makes our journey spiral towards being ok with our humanistic attempts at the bold. We seek self-expression as our destiny and the spice of life. Our resolve is contestant and paramount. There is always a new world to explore just one conversation away.
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