WHY YOU DUMPED WRITING

As Technology improves, some activities tend to reduce. In fact, many skills will be extinct in the next few decades with the invasion of artificial intelligence and robot engineering. However, writers are one of the few people that will always remain relevant as long as the planets journey around the sun. In fact, we might still be needed even at the other side of eternity.
Around 3000 BC the Egyptians developed a form of writing with pictures. For writing on papyrus scrolls scribes, they used thin reed brushes. The dark ages wrote on tables with bones stylus. Quill and ink reigned between 600-1800 AD before pencil was invented in 1790s. Then pen and later typewriters and now we have laptops and many screen touch devices and gadgets. More sophisticated equipment will be invented with time but nothing will ever replace writing. We will always have to write and create our individual contents as long as we have oxygen in our lungs.
The world has never been starved of writers so this article is not a plea, or an attempt at a subtle recruitment into the league of writers. Rather, it's about helping you to be more useful to yourself first, and then your world.
Do you think you can write but you find yourself not writing? Do you have thoughts that can add value to someone but they have never been painted in ink? Do you think your imagination is crazy, creative, weird, hilarious or special but you don't see yourself sharing? I know the reasons why you have not been scribing and I also have the solution.

Here they are:
1. YOU ARE BLIND:
Do I mean, your sight is impaired and you need someone to help you with clear cut direction and keep you from slamming your face against the wall? Yeah! That is exactly what I am saying. You are a benighted soul clueless about his values and inner treasures, so it is difficult to place value on the assets you cannot access. You cannot dare to share the contents you are unsure of.
SOLUTION: Spend time with yourself and discover the treasure buried within you. Unearth them and share them with your world. Quite simple, right? Yep.
2. YOU ARE SOLIPSISTIC:
If you truly embrace the fact that you are unique and valuable yet you refuse to share your content, then you are self-centered. Only a wicked soul keeps valuable asset from people who need it.
SOLUTION : Understand that your knowledge is not yours. It belongs to the people around you. God is the giver of all insights and ideas and will do anything to get them to you as he knows he can get them to people through you.

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3. YOU ARE PROUD:
Selfishness and pride have this in common: they are both self-inflicted diseases that stunt growth. Many content creators stopped creating because they have been bashed with criticisms in the past. Many are even too afraid to start because they feel they might be criticized for delivering below expectations. Wake up girl, nobody is expecting anything from you. Kill that fly of assumption. Be humble.
Do you belong to either of these categories? If yes, then you are proud.
SOLUTION: You are human and mistakes are always allowed. God placed critics: constructive and destructive alike around us, to refine us to the very best. However, don’t open your heart to all forms of criticism because some are best useful when ignored.
NOTE: Excellence is a journey not a destination. You won't get there if you don't get started. Start now and make as many mistakes as you can. It is a part of the process.

4. YOU ARE LAZY:
"The slothful man saith, there is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." –King Solomon
A lazy man is not your restful neighbor who is always indoor. A slothful man is a man whose life and words, are laced with excuses. He has a sack of a million reasons why things cannot be done.
Conception of ideas or topics is work but conversion into consumable content is hard work. Caged ideas within your skulls are useless until they are birthed.
The difference between the foetus in the womb and the child in the cradle is the laborious process called DELIVERY. I think that is what King Solomon meant by this statement:
“The slothful man roasteth (execute) not that which he took in hunting (thoughts and ideas): but the substance of a diligent man is precious”.
SOLUTION: One of the most successful writer of all times captured it in this sentence: "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway.
