What Kind of Lighter Do You Have?
Life is about learning.
Learn to understand other people, learn to understand the environment, and learn to understand yourself. Age can’t measure someone’s knowledge and experience — outside the context of educational level. Because there are so many things you only know when you get to a certain point, not all of that comes from being at school. Although without kidding yourself, there is also a lot to learn when you go to class.
I’m still learning — and will continue to learn to understand myself. What do I like, what makes me comfortable or not, what can make me stressed, and how can I release it? I’m still looking for my comfort point. And I found one of them by writing.
I like writing. I like telling stories and putting what’s in my head into writing instead of talking about it out loud. Even though I speak the same language, I can express more freely when I say one word at a time in a piece of writing. The vocabulary and choice of words that I choose give a spark of pleasure to me.
Everyone has their own “lighter”.
If I write, it’s different from my friends who use cooking as a lighter to that spark. She said cooking was a stress reliever for her. Listening to how she excitedly describes the feeling when she cooks makes me remember the spark that appears when I write.
I am very grateful because I found “lighter” in a crucial phase for keeping myself sane before entering the age when everything feels heavy and needs to be vented. I’m grateful because writing is still a way to stay sane in an increasingly messy world.
