For varied reasons, people consider literature as a
reflection of one’s soul; a mirror where we all look at to see the often
ignored things about reality of life.
For varied reasons also, people take literature as an
extreme expression of emotions which includes but is never limited to love,
hatred, fear, sympathy, melancholy, happiness, frustration, as well as lust and
fantasy that we are often afraid to disclose.
For it is through literature that we come to wholly face
ourselves without any reservation. In its chambers, we celebrate
victory and accept our defeat; we become the masters and slaves of every writer’s
insane mind; we get to believe in fairies and dinosaurs and fear worms and trees
like a mad child begging for his milk bottle at the darkest of nights.
Literature has no bounds at all. It trespasses all lairs of
serenity as well as those of chaos and incongruency. And once it succeeds in
conquering a world, it will all depend on how the curse
or the blessing it brings you is being handled– a true blessing when enriched but a curse
when ignored.
I write this to give you my reasons as well as
the times I healthily play with my literary characters. At the end of the day,
I only aim at one thing: to persuade you that “writing makes one simple life
interesting.”
When I’m lonely, I write
If there’s something in this world that could kill me
instantly (people who keep grudges on me are happy to know this I suppose),
that would probably be loneliness – a helpless feeling I believe.
It is loneliness that makes me feel
I worth nothing in this world, that I should not exist because people
who value me never really co-exist with me after all.
At times like this, I write about
my hopes, my fantasies, and my delusions to review the reasons why I must
endure.
When I’m happy, I write
Gladness would probably boost
one’s desire to write. If there’s a simplest reason why a lot of writers exist,
that would probably be because there are a lot happy people as much as the
number of happy thoughts present in this world.
Personally, I write when I’m
happy to share my happiness to others, to remind those who are in despair of
life that day’s darkest moments end when you come to see the light. And that
light becomes known to man only when he opens his eyes and see things beneath
the surfaces.
When I feel like crying, I
believe writing is a good shoulder to cry on. It is a good confidante, a good
place to rest my grief. It may not provide you answers for your questions, but
it provides ways to find relief.
When I’m in love I write
I believe love is mostly the
reason why people become writers. Love is so powerful that it
urges man to talk about cupid’s magnificent works most of the times.
I started writing love passages,
which then became a poem, then became essays until it became love and tragedy,
and of course, unconventional love in human race.
I write to tell the world that I am
human, vulnerable to all love’s hurting and joy.
When I’m afraid, I write
I’m a coward. I fear a lot of
things; frog, snakes, darkness, my girlfriend’s dad and brothers, and of course
death. But my fears settle when I write it down. In my world, I create armors
that are precisely able to protect me from all these fears.
When no one listens, I write
In this world where everyone keeps on telling a story, oftentimes I get ignored. So when I feel that no one listens, I
write my stories and let the universe comprehend everything I want other people to
know. I believe the air is never self-centered to not keep-tell every story I have
shared. Thus, every wind breeze, if you just listen, brings about a story, a
story of someone who never been heard.
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There are a lot more reasons why
I write. And those are just among the very obvious part of why I'm writing. I hope you too could find your own.
Just
a simple note about my experience in finding these reasons, I have
endured mockery,
suppression as well as depression as I fulfill my role as a literary
practitioner in the past. But I believe all those are just part of it.
All
you need to do is endure and be bolder each time you stand. Only then
you can say, every letter you put
to make a sentence is an important part of a story, and that story is
something everyone will never shun to read.
