Writing

Today we discuss writing and why it’s important.

Writing challenges our brains to translate shapeless ideas into logical and picturesque sentences. Writing creates a form, a mental art and craft classroom where you take clay, wood, paint…. and transform it into a beautiful carving, pot or drawing.

Interestingly, writing improves our vocabulary. How? You ask. Well, if you keep writing every so often, you will avoid repeating the same words over and over. So what do you do? You look for other words to use to describe different situations. And in your conversations too, the vocabulary and sentence structure changes. Your communication improves albeit gradually.

And since writing is a form of self-expression, you get to understand yourself. You get to a level of self-awareness that was previously hidden from you. You question your ideas and have these internal monologues of ‘is this what I believe?’ ‘Is this true about me?’ So you see? Writing not only helps you relay new ideas to others but also to you - the author.

‘So man of the cloth, do we all now open blogs like you?’ Well, if you can then go ahead, but if you can’t, get you a book where you will from time to time express your ideas.

Like John Dewey once said, “we don’t learn from experience but reflecting on experience”

Let’s get writing!!!