Writing to Help Others

For a contest: Why I write

Writing for me is cathartic. Writing gets me through the day. Sometimes the day is drab and boring and thus the writing gives me energy to get through the rest of the day. Sometimes I need to get through an emotion and the thing that helps is to write out the emotion in a poem. Sometimes it gets me through an argument without starting World War III. I am a wordy person and know that there is not always someone there to listen to me so my words are all I have.

Looking back, I find that writing has opened me up and allowed me to go beyond the emotion that could be damaging. Once I have written out my feelings I can lay them aside and go forth in life. This is especially true with my sad depressing thoughts and feelings that creep up in my life, often. I can write a poem and or a post on a news group and go beyond the feeling.

When the day seems to go nowhere then I can write that down in my journal and find a reason for the day. This gets my writing going and thus finding direction. There are times when I start to write one thing only to have another thing all together come out in the same journal entry. To me this is okay as long as I write.

My love comes from being allowed to express who I am as a person and artist. I feel that there are others out in the world that have similar feelings and experiences. I want them to know that they are not alone. So many people suffer in silence because they have convinced themselves that they are alone and should suffer for their supposed sins. Of course, I have felt that way once but I know better now and want others to see the light that I now see.

And that is why I write. I write for others to find their own self and that they are not alone. I also write to help myself get through the hard days. Writing to me is very selfish yet can help others in the end when I am willing to put myself on the line to help others. I'm all into the fact that as a human my main purpose is to help others.