on Writing

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.
- Alain Robbe-Grillet

Writing is its own reward.
- Henry Miller


Writing will always be one of the things I enjoy doing in my life. No, I don't have a good handwriting nor a talent in producing better adjectives to give a perfect description of my thoughts, my grammar and my punctutions are badly misplaced but still, I write. Writing is like a therapy to me. Ever since I was a little girl I started to keep my own journal. Too bad I lost those precious notebooks where I wrote the day my classmate-slash-crush smiled at me. The day I was bullied because I'm fat. The day my mother gave me some spanking for going to a summer basketball game without her permission. Those are funny memories in my childhood that I transcribed into a "Dear Diary" letter. Letters--the word put a smile on my face. I love writing and receiving letters especially to and from my loved ones. Letters are a medium for us to put into writing those very important words of love that we want to read and read all over again. Too bad technology has advanced so well that a lot of people has forgotten the art of writing a letter but I will never stop writing one, hoping that no one would also stop writing me one.

Writing keeps my sanity. I have a lot of things in my mind that I have to put into writing to keep my brain from short-circuiting.I have a bad memory as well, so writing helps. Regardless of what mode--it can be a writing to remember a formula, a recipe, a heartbreaking letter or a poem for a loved one, I will continue and never tire. I don't care if nobody reads them, as long as I've expressed myself through my pen and paper, the pleasure would always be mine.