Write, Forrest, Write!

Writing your story as therapy was suggested to me today. This interesting idea probably accounts for 65% of the sad and disturbing AP Lit reading list, including everything written by Toni Morrison.

I use sarcasm to entertain, but here I am, writing out my thoughts, and allowing it to make me feel better.

I spent 5 hours on the phone with a good friend the other night. How that came to be helpful is not a part of this story, but it was necessary to entertain with mindless chatter for a long time. It was all too easy for me to talk for the bulk of the 5 hours without interruption, interjection, questions or pause for thought. This is embarrassing. But it felt wonderful. It eased the pressure in my head and unlocked some new perspectives on some topics that I have been thinking ruts into for quite a while. There is an overwhelming amount of monologue in my head that finds relief from an outlet.

Writing is just about the only socially acceptable forum for a monologue. It is the one place where you are expected to monopolize the conversation by thinking all the way to the point without allowing anyone else to step in, even if the point will take hours to arrive at. Actually, there may be other forums, but what they all have in common is the audience's ability to get up, walk away and come back to the forum at any point. Monologuing is socially unacceptable when the audience is captive (and didn't know what they were in for.) I hate that I am such a chatterbox and inclined to talk off all the closest ears. I hope that perhaps if I write out a quantity of my thoughts, I may become a better listener.

My high school English teacher, Mr. N, was also encouraging me to get back into writing. Most of the people I have admired and idolized throughout my life have been writers. All of this lining up seems to point to a clear admonition:

WRITE!

It is so ironic that it is papers that have been my collegiate downfall.

I'm not sure why this blog hold so much appeal as this outlet-- I have a good spiritual journal and several notebooks dedicated to off-loading my brain, but there are advantages to the typing medium and it's hard to lose or misplace the entire internet. :0)