Writing - A Passion of Mine

I'm not sure why but I have been on a bit of a writing kick lately. I suppose it is due to the fact that I have a million thoughts always running through my brain and I have a fiery need to write them down and share them with others. There is just something about putting your thoughts into words.

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Audra Foveo-Alba

I share this quote with you because I feel the same. Writing something down, creating words in a beautiful arrangement is something I feel everyone should do. When I hear someone say "I can't write" it breaks my heart. Writing isn't something you have to be great at, isn't something everyone should love. It is something you do for yourself. You write down thoughts, put them into words and rather it comes out as a Michelangelo master piece or a preschoolers refrigerator art it is a beautiful and amazing thing. It is something that is stored and saved forever, something that you can always have to look back on.

I was recently searching through old boxes looking for something when I found myself lost in one particular box. It was a box full of writings from my younger years. It included a notebook from 6th grade full of letters exchanged between a friend and I, a Book of Poems that I wrote when I was in the first grade, a journal I kept when I was in my "Write every thought I can think of phase" and even a Play about a family from 9th grade. As I looked through the notebooks and sheets of paper that contained words I put together I smiled. Amazed and the simplicity yet extraordinary work I had put together.

So now with this post I suppose I challenge everyone, if you have something that was written by you many years ago pull it out and read it. Smile at your writing then and enjoy the amazement of it. Then grab a pen and paper, or even get on the computer and blog about something. Blog about your day, about your thoughts, about anything. Rather your writing it for anyone to see or just for yourself write.