LEMON

Ever since I was a child, I’ve always loved writing. Stories, poems, plans, about my day— anything, really. I still have notebooks, notepads, random sheets of paper from back when I was a child with the most random things or the strangest stories written. And writing anything always brought me so much joy. It gave me a medium of expression.

Over the years, I’ve come to realise how truly important writing has been for me and the role it has played in my life. I think reading was what made me start writing. It opened up a whole new world of expression for me. I didn’t have to say anything; speaking in a much broader sense, I only had to write and someone, somewhere would understand it and maybe even like it.

A few years ago, there was a brief period of time where everything seemed to be moving too fast and it felt like I had no time to sit and think, given that I am someone who gets overwhelmed very quickly and needs to sit and ponder from time to time so I can move forward with clarity. I felt like I had no outlet and that was a suffocating feeling. So, one day, I simply started writing a stream of consciousness. That was what got me into writing daily (I never wrote on a daily basis before this).

For the past few years, I have been writing almost everyday. Initially, I would use any piece of paper I found because I approached writing everyday casually, but now I have a notebook for writing in longhand everyday. It doesn’t always necessarily contain an account of my day, even though I write in it everyday. It’s like a stream of consciousness; it’s a collection of my thoughts. It’s a physical space to think; I write whatever I think; it’s a notebook where I think as I write or write to think. Sometimes I will intentionally write to make decisions or plans, because writing helps me think. Other times I will write about the most mundane things ever. It doesn’t really matter what I write. Some days I might not write at all and some day I might write multiple times a day— it’s whenever I feel like.

Writing in longhand, for me, is an outlet and a medium of expression. I make so many plans and decisions and I’m able to ideate so much when I am writing. If it’s on my mind, it has to be on the paper; I must write it down. That’s how much of an integral part writing has become in my life.

I feel like it also depends on the connection you have with writing. There are so many others ways of expression. It’s about what you feel deeply connected to.

Coming back to present, I started this blog so I could write for an audience, reconnect with creative writing and express myself to the world.

What does writing mean to you? What other forms of expression do you connect to? What helps you express? I would love know.