Writing

Why putting thoughts into words is so joyful

Thoughts seldom come as words and those words rarely come out well. The advent of language was soon followed by the pressing need to record what we had to say and with it came writing. A tool for several years, has now become a joy for many with something to say. Whether it be a pen on paper or keystroke on the keyboard, the inexplicable joy of seeing your thought appear as words before you is indeed something worth experiencing.

We all have a lot of things to say. Words make us laugh, cry and bring out a gamut of expressions. A well written word will draw us to live the tale the writer lived. When we jump into a page of fantasy and battle dragons or evil wizards, it matters not that they do not exist for in our head they are real. When reading itself brings so much joy it is assumed that writing and enamouring your reader would be nothing short of ecstatic. Years it takes for some to write and hours for others, yet the fruit of both labours are indelible. Decades from now when we read the things we wrote it challenges the notion of what we were. It brings out so many revelations to the future self that we often step back and question our ways. We see ourselves as kids who were cocky or sometimes a better person. Either way it serves us the true us. We live and learn, and what use is that we cannot tell. Every human has a story and every story worth chronicling. We are storytellers and whether it be real or make believe what better way than to write. We learn our soul when we write and probably is the best way to know what we actually want.

Writing isn’t easy, but what is? Writing is worth the effort and regardless of the audience you reach, be it 1, 20, or a million the actual reader is you. Writing is more for you than for others. There is no one to please but yourself and when that is done is there a delay for joy? Be it big or small, to put in words brings forth euphoria, give me that high any day.