Writing About Writing.

If I set my microwave to 600 watts and heat my (what would be) hot chocolate for 2 minutes, it will spill over in the machine.

Now that’s all been cleaned up, I can tell you what I like about writing. Firstly, I’d like to clarify what writing and journalling mean in my mind.

Journalling is writing for my eyes only. It’s how I maintain a relationship with myself. When I want my own advice or need to untangle thoughts, my notebook and pen will be waiting for me.

Writing (or typing away on my laptop, in this modern age of technology) is my external facade, distinctly separate from journaling. It's something I share with others. Like this gobbledegook you’re reading now. I can be judged by the world from these curated paragraphs.

Let me continue by sharing what I like about writing. By far the best thing about it is, if you know how to read and write, it’s the easiest way to not live in a silo with your ideas - by keeping a public record of them. Living in a silo isn't good for anyone, and it’s pretty boring, as much as I love my own company. You go round in circles not knowing who you’d become if you had just shared your perspective.

Writing holds you accountable if you haven't written in a while, via a person who asks “how’s your writing coming along?” knowing full well you haven't published something in months.

Writing can lead you to act more, make changes, collaborate with others, connect with others, and have a voice in this eclectically crowded world.

Sure, there are other mediums to express yourself that involve visuals like video and audio like podcasts, and perhaps one day there will be the most complete experience of them all: travelling telepathically into someone else’s mind, all your senses firing with sparks flying through your neurons, exposing the fullest expression of another human’s thoughts and ideas which you would never have solo.

Although, that would be a bit...intrusive, wouldn't it? There'd be a lot of moving parts that could go wrong. What if you were stuck in that persons mind forever?

Maybe it's best to stick to writing...

Whether you write a lot or don't write at all, there will always be one person out there who would take great pleasure in your arrangement of words.

I can hear you asking “by the way, how was your hot chocolate?”. Despite the spillage, it was really good, thank you.