Sunday, January 10, 2010
What is the significance of writing?
Do we all have a moral responsibility to write- we consume the literary genius of other writers and with this receipt of what others worked to create, do we have the responsibility to pay if forward, by synthesising from various works with a dash of my two cents worth?
Writing can be immensely disappointing and it's like suffering from constipation. You don't seem to express yourself with the right words or the expression is only partial. It's irritating while a writer is on the task and at moments like these the advice would usually to await a stronger surge from nature that can inspire the writer to write gratifyingly and completely.
Thanks to numerous priorities that superseded my need to write, I wrote scantly. The A levels, CCAs and just staying alive. For one who is not a professional writer, and whose works are not meant to be shared in the first place, clearly, writing is not important for staying alive. And if it is about reflection and consolidation, which is why many people maintain a diary, is thinking, i.e. resurrecting the memories, reinforcing the lessons and reliving the emotions in your head a poor substitute? Does replacing writing with thinking make me any more vacant emotionally?
Once I was crazy about writing, I was insanely in love with language that I thought I would study the language in university but I realise it is a love I can put down, forget in the face of things like study, work, friends and play. Or at least I thought I could. I snigger at the feeble attempts to earn attention with garish photos, needless details about some super interesting and happening lives and the updated lists of newest couples and breakups. These made writing so easy to put down but once in a long while I stumble upon an entry that makes some cells dance. Slowly, many cells dance and awake the closeted passion I once had, channeling this energy to my fingers and head to write again in the hope that someone, a reader from the land of serendipity will also begin to dance in the cells too.
4:19 AM
