Why do we write?

Is this my road to redemption, or just another failed attempt to be consistent..? Let's find out

I feel like most of the topics I choose to write about are pretty ironic. Trust me, I was trying to write a piece for 1 week before I gave up on it. Any guesses on what the title was?

“Why do we procrastinate?”

Yeah, I know.

So, why are we here today? Umm, because I thought it would be great to tell you all why do we write? I mean, the title says “we” but I am only going to talk about my experience.

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Why and how I started writing?

Would you be interested in bit of a backstory? I hope you said yes. You don’t have much of a choice tbh.

It was June 2017, one of those days when you know you fucked up. So, there I was, scratching my head over what I could do to make things better.

I was not a writer. It wasn’t even a thing I considered real. Like, who writes, right? I don’t know what happened that day, but I felt that there are things that I need to say. So, instead of sending them via WhatsApp like a normal person, I decided to write them as a poem. It was bad, like, really bad. Just plain AB AB rhyme with the most basic words ever.

That’s how I started. I just wanted to express myself.

When I was very new to writing, I realised that it helped me say things I didn’t want anyone to hear. I could wrap things around the words and they could mean something completely different. It was magical, and it worked.

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Why do I write?

But, why do I actually write. Why do I sit down to type things out for hours so that you can read this whole piece in just 5 minutes?

Well, because… I feel when you write your thoughts, you explore everything that goes on in your brain. Even those thoughts that mostly just sits there and are of no use. Also, you read what I was feeling and I get the validation I need 😂.

While writing things, you realise that how you actually don’t think a lot. We don’t go into the deep questions of why, how and when while thinking because our brain compresses the information giving us the illusion of understanding everything. But in reality, you don’t understand shit. I mean, I don’t understand shit. This is about me, remember.

But when you are writing, you don’t have a choice. Writing is hard. You need a flow, you need to set context, you need to explain things because the readers want more context and a better understanding. For that, you need to be smart, you need to ask hard questions and then answer them in the simplest manner possible.

Well, I am already tired just thinking about it.

I have to plan well while writing, so that my 5 readers don’t leave this in between making me sadder than I already am. That makes it sound like a defence or coping mechanism. It’s not, I hope.

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So, why do I write? To cope wit.. ummm.. To express myself better.

Why should you write? Because all those things you have never told anybody needs to be shared so that you can free yourself of the emotional burden you have and finally be free and maybe even happy. (Or, you can just start a paid newsletter and use it to make money)

Find your own reasons, but write. It’ll make you smarter and a much better thinker, and one day you will be glad that you subscribed to this newsletter which gave you the best advice ever.

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