Writing is a skill meant for living and joy
Writing is one of the most basic skills that one can acquire. Anyone who becomes proficient with the grammar of a language can write. Yet not everyone has what it takes to be a writer. When it comes to the power play of words, only a few people know how to score heavily. If used wisely, writing can help one achieve a lot. Here are some pointers in favor of the wonderfully simple talent of writing.
• It earns you both money and intellect: If you can maneuver words on the pathway of ideas that people want to read, writing can help you pay your bills. Feed society’s grey matter and they’ll return the favor through an economic reward. There are some well-documented rags-to-riches stories about writers out there. What’s more, it helps you grow intellectually, too. When you pen down your thoughts, you want to express them in the most creative yet simple way. So you find newer ways of articulation. This helps you get a better grasp of your vocabulary and diction. Also, how easily and convincingly you turn a point of view into a plot/ article shows how proficient a merchant of words you are.
• Sets you free: There are times when you want to talk about something that’s been on your mind for a while but nobody pays you any heed. Getting frustrated to avoid the conversation altogether is one way of dealing with such scenarios. The other is to write and present the matter to people in a manner that they’re forced to listen to you. Writing allows you to find an escape route for the opinions and emotions that were getting pent up. Hence, once you write about a topic that’s close to you or one that you want to tell others more about, it sets you free and makes you feel at ease.
• It helps you touch lives positively: Words have the power to influence. Words of encouragement to someone who’s been down and out can help lift spirits and transform the person psychologically completely. The writings by eminent personalities like Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela during times of racism for the black community were instrumental in driving a change. If you want to give rise to a wave of motivation, give your voice a shape through words and you can keep touching the lives of people positively to no end.
• It’ll help you live on even after you’re gone: Borrowing from a famous Bollywood song belonging to the classics era, “Ek din bik jayega, matee ke mol, Jag me reh jayenge pyare tere bol” The meaningful words you spread to the world through publishing your writings online or through a book will remain alive forever. And remind the world of the void that can’t be filled as your words made a dent in time that’s still visible. You can create a riot by lifting a pen. Or you can bring peace to a war using the same.
Writing has many facets but its used best for the purposes of spreading joy and making a living.
