I started writing while traveling. It was useful to thwart boredom during times without much to distract my eyes or my ears, and there were a lot of those times. Then it was an effective way to tie down my thoughts, capturing what I saw and felt at the moment.
For an introvert, writing is helpful to gather and organize thoughts. It helps solidify and make coherence a preposition. Thoughts are not concrete until they are written down. Whereas feelings used to be only in the head, they are now validated. Old feelings, whether good or bad, return anew when they are read again. It’s a double-edged sword.
Poetry writes themselves. As if my head would go bonkers if thoughts aren’t set free at once is when poetry arrives. Otherwise, I feel that to write poetry, one needs to dig deep within oneself. However, a blog is an exercise in writing. The fun in a writing exercise is to be able to write about any topic at all. For example, about pen without cap:
“Pen without cap are among the most annoying artifacts in existent. The moral disposition prevents us from disposing a pen without cap, for its primary purpose, which is to write, remains intact while we are burdened by the guilt of being wasteful and frivolous, as if judging a book by its cover.
However, a pen without cap cannot be filed away because if we were to keep it right side up, its ink would either tip down or dry out, and if we were to keep it upside down, its tip would break, rendering it useless either way.
But if a pen without cap is let to just lay about, the ink would find its way into our hands, our clothes, our notebooks, our brown-nosing greeting cards. At times, we must rid the ants so as not to disturb the elephant.”
Not only is it fun to write about random topics, it also encourages me to check old facts, to learn new facts, and to get better at making an argument. Writing does for our brain what exercise does for our body. In writing, the brain must work at connecting separate information cells. Words gather into synonyms, forming analogies and metaphors. What is creativity but stand-alone ideas melded into novelty?
Once upon a time, men didn’t know how to speak. Once speech came, it became inseparable to the mind. We can’t even imagine how men may function without speech. Literacy has not yet arrived to every mind, but once it does, I wonder how deficient the brain may become without it.
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