Why Do You Write?

Why do you write?

Releasing Stress

When I grew up, I wrote to release stress.  As with all with all school age students, I experienced my fair share of stress, from anxiety at school, to stress at home, to fitting in.  Everyone needs to release that stress, otherwise it will eat you from the inside out.

My personal writing schedule during my time living at home became extremely important to me and I made sure I gave myself time to write every night.  I usually worked best from seven to ten, typically after I finished any homework I had for the evening.  There were times during the evenings I wrote, as I’ve mentioned here previously, that I would spend the entire three or four hour time period writing something and not even be aware that I wrote ANYTHING at ALL.  Being in the flow is an amazing experience, and I hope everyone can feel that at some point in their lives.

Writing produced that sense for me many many times.  Writing is the way I dealt with the stress of growing up.  Everyone has some stress as child, as a youth, as a teen.  Don’t let anyone tell you different.

With all the writing I did growing up, it became like breathing for me.
–Writing became life fulfilling.
–Writing became second nature.

You may as well ask:
Why do you breathe?

Writing is Breathing

Since I’ve been writing for as long as I could write, with the exception of a ten year period from 2000 to 2010, it became as imperative for me to write as it is to breath.  During that ten year period I lost the itch to write and surprisingly, I didn’t even miss it.  When the gift was given back to me, I decided that I would do everything in my power to make sure I didn’t lose the desire again.

I can thankfully say now, over three years out, that writing is more important to me now than it may have even been in my youth.  Why do I think that?

Because I’m doing my best to write every day.
Because I’m writing more now than I ever did in my youth.
Because when I don’t write I feel the stress creeping in.
Because Writing IS breathing for me.

I spoke to a friend of mine recently and she said about the same thing:
–That the reason I excelled at writing is the same reason she excelled at her stress releaser.
–It’s because writing is what I did growing up and as with ANYTHING, the more you do something the more you’ll improve.

Everyone needs a stress release.  For me it became writing.

What is yours?

I Write.
Therefore I am!

Be Happy!  Be Well!  Be Positive!
Blessings to you.
–
Chris