Writing for the sake of . . . . Writing?
I write a lot of words in the day. Many of them are for the sake of taking notes, or writing a paper. Few are simply for the sake of filling a blank sheet of paper and fewer still are for the sake of laying down my own thoughts, or expressing something important. Most of the words are written in order to tell someone something.
I wonder if I would still feel the need to write if I didn't know that there was someone reading what I think about things in my life. While I sometimes do wonder, I also know that I would. Words are not merely a way to say something to someone, but also a way of showing something deeper in me. There is something that always makes me think when I write. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1. If words are so close to the divine, why are we so careless with them? Why is it that we allow our words to fall so freely from our mouths, seeking to not to have something to say, but to merely say something?
It's a reminder every time I write that what I write will have cosequences. I may write solely for myself, but there is someone who is reading it. It's hard to realize there are people reading when I get no comments and very little response to what I write. Regardless of how much I may have began this blog in order to keep in touch with someone who is currently on the other side of the world, it's become so much more for me. My words are less a way to say something, as opposed to me having something to say. It is not usually having something to say to someone, but merely a way to crystalize my own thoughts in my head. It allows people to know something more about me, but also lets me see something that I didn't see before. My words connect me to the deepest and best part of my life. Sometimes it's hard to feel that when I get so wrapped up in my life, my classes and my own dramas. It's easy to think my words are simply words and nothing more. But they aren't. They are so much more.
What's the reason that I write? I write because I have to. I write because it allows me to connect with something greater than myself, deeper than myself and entirely a part of myself. I don't write because I have to say something, but instead because I have something to say.
4 Comments:
interesting thoughts there...
--Alex
While we may not leave comments, we do read.
You write to crystalize your throughts, i write poetry that people never see to do the same thing, or even these days compose music.
JR
I think it's funny that thoughts, which are by linguists considered very much superior to words (which are limiting, and ambiguous, and since they're human constructions, constantly subject to change), are frequently dependent on the latter to make sense of their meaning.
I appreciate everything that you write, and having known you for a very very long time, I know that writing is something that is very connected to you. And I've also taken up journalling to get out my thoughts...though people will never see it, it helps me to express what I'm thinking and going through. A really intersting entry!
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