Why I write
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Inspired by ‘Why I Write’ by Terry Tempest Williams.
I write to try and make sense of a nonsensical world. I write because for so long I felt like I’d lost my voice but now I have something to say. I write to untangle my thoughts, to create space in a brain that is forever too busy. I write to form an opinion. I write to feel like I am making a contribution to the world around me. I write hoping someone will read. I write in a bid to feel understood, to feel validated for the hours poured into reading and adult education.
I write because there is more to life than this.
Than 9-to-5 and early nights and eternal social exhaustion. I write for myself. I write to escape for a minute into inky hypnosis as the nib curves across the page. I write to feel alive, to feel like I am doing something. Anything. To make the world a little bit better. I write to try and show you the wonder of life, the veins on a leaf, the call of a bird, the joy in the laughter.
I write because it is freeing.
I write because it eases the frustration of unmet potential and long roads ahead. I write because I have control of the words, the emotion, the point trying to be made. I write when I cannot speak. The voice can fail but the words are always there. I write for the comfort that I physically made a mark. When I am ashes and dust there will be a part of me that remains, no matter how small or insignificant.
I write because I can.
In a world where anyone can have their say, find their platform. I write to hope my voice adds to the solution and not the problem. I write for many reasons. But, somehow, also for no reason at all.
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