Scribbling Again… Writing and it’s therapeutic effects

It’s been a while I’ve written anything beyond e-mails at work, my Podcast script/concepts, or my public speaking talks I’ve been doing off late.
Long before this, mostly writing for me has always been a process of inward reflection or creating inspiration that drives my thoughts out into the universe whether it was a poem I wrote or a story way back when I was in school.
Or travel blogs that I started writing about 10 years ago, and I can say for sure, after traversing to over 300 destinations across India, I’ve learnt how traveling and experiencing is great, but writing about those journeys and the memoirs of sorts, become a great window to the past.
Or for that matter, the little bit of scribbling I did in my job as an advertiser and a media professional… Writing copies, content for websites, article for advertising blogs like Lighthouse Insights, Social Samosa, or blogs around the Indian startup ecosystem.
Heck, I even wrote Love Notes to a Bar Tissue once, while sitting in a Bar waiting for a friend and my phone battery dying out.
So what got me back here. This Medium blog might ask me this question. My dear old friend, I’d definitely not visited you for a while but hadn’t forgotten you for sure.
I recently started traveling in the train again.
Up until now, I used to carpool, or take a cab and more often than none, that should be an ideal environment to be able to pick up your kindle/book to read, but in today’s binge-watching era, I’d be tempted to watch a TV show or a movie as opposed to reading.
Back to the train journey, while people around me, most of them are binge watching, on their mobiles, I decided to, for a change, read a book instead. Two benefits
- You’ll barely find anyone else snooping into your content.
- No one will ask you to Share-It your book.
And the book that I’m currently reading is What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami! A big fan of his work, 1Q84, Kafka On The Shore and The Wind-Up Bird chronicle, this one came to me at the right time.
The last whole year for me has been about fitness, and this book is a personal memoir of Murakami talking about his running days and how it helped him become a better novelist and of course live longer… So this one’s a perfect read for me.
And that’s also something that inspired me to pen down my thoughts every once in a while and I think, Medium, is the best platform for such pondering writing that I’d like to do once every while.
And while most of us might have heard, Writing has a therapeutic effect, it’s something that I’ve not consciously done thinking of it from that stand point. Never have I kept a diary or or a journal and thought of writing being a therapeutic tool for me.
So yeah, I’m not a big fan of journaling every single day, I do think of taking the effort once every while to put my thoughts together and write something that satiates my desire to fulfil my creative hunger of sorts but also to vocalise my thoughts on how I’m feeling at times. And I believe by scribbling or dabbling at taking up writing all over again, I think I’d be able to do justice to my inner voice, introspecting about things that’ll matter to me.
Now what they are or what they could be, is something I will ponder upon more soon. But one thing, I am sure of, is whatever I write, will be something that’s as profound and as introspective and close to my heart on that given day. Kind of like opening up a window to my soul.
So, maybe to begin with I’d probably talk about what things are important to me on a given day or at a specific stage, maybe in a week or month. Speaking of which, currently, I’m in a zone where I think, while being caught up with a bunch of things, at work, and in life, I need to find myself some time to read more and write more, simply because this is a way and means for me to find out what direction I’d need to head into.
So most likely, the the first post, after this one, would very well be a log from my life on what is on my reading list and also what inspired me to start off with writing to begin with. I don’t think I’ve shared that yet or at least recently.
So let’s see what I talk about when I talk about writing and reading! ;-)
