The only way I know how
08 Jan 2012 1 Comment
in philosophy, random thoughts and crazy wonderings
Some people don’t understand why I’m always giddy about receiving a letter. Others may never fully grasp how powerful written words can be and how they can change everything about a person. Maybe for some, writing is just another way of saying how one feels—instead of actually saying them, one wrote them. Simple as that.
But written words have a way of affecting you unlike spoken words. With spoken words, although they could break you apart and rip your heart into little pieces, there’s still a chance that—in time—you could remember them differently, or forget them entirely. With written words, when you read something over and over and over again, no matter how many years ago it was written, you always go back to that place. You always remember the moment when you can’t breathe while you were writing it because you were crying your eyes out, or you were too drunk and angry to stop because you really needed to let it all out.
It’s sad in a way, to remember that you had those moments to yourself, pouring out your heart to a blog instead of a friend. And maybe it’s one of the reasons why some people would rather not write about their feelings.
But there is also a magical side to writing down what you feel, especially if you felt happy when you wrote something. And you wrote it for someone else. It can really change you. It can uplift your spirits within minutes, turn your frown upside down, give you the perspective you wanted and the support that you needed. But most of all, you could also go back to reading it, over and over and over again and feel all warm and fuzzy whenever you want to. You could go back to being the entire world to someone, to being friends forever; back to being loved. You remember that once you were happy and positive. And it gives you hope that you could be that person again.
I’ve had doubts in the past about my ability to really write, and what the hell am I doing with my life writing marketing collaterals? I’ve wondered what genre I even had a shot at mastering, because it’s definitely not SEO and business writing. It’s so frustrating to know what you want to do but not figure out exactly what you need to do. But when I think about how powerful written words can be, and how they could change everything about a person, how they could give you the perspective that you need, and how you can always make someone feel loved over and over and over again whenever they want to, all my worries disappear.
And at the end of the day, I figure it out somehow. And I go back to writing the only way I know how: from the heart.
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