Why I Write: Writing as a Skill

Imagine 30 years ago. You’re in a city in India – trying to share your ideas worldwide. It used to happen only through publishing books, writing in magazines and expressing your views on politics or current affairs in daily newspapers. You would have to be a famous writer or should be rich enough to publish your work worldwide.

But now its 21^st Century – the ‘Internet Revolution’ has happened and now people are publishing their ideas ready to export to the world at almost no cost.  It is pretty exciting thought to have thousands of people engaging with your ideas coming straight out of your mind. Sometimes I wonder: What if I continue to write in isolation? Would I keep writing if no one reads my words? Answer is yes. This brings us to an important question of why I write.

Sure, I write because I enjoy the process. I like the idea of how only using the power of words and sentences– one can transform the world with ideas. I want to develop my writing into an open-sourced reservatory of ideas I come across every day. Being the slowest form of expression, it helps me distils my ideas. Plus, it feels natural to my mental gym routine. And yes, I want to build a business. On leveraging, I want to build a true community – staying content to make a living and not a fortune. But, more I write, the more I realis that writing is much more that all of that to me.

Writing is a way to bring clarity.

Writing allows you to craft your own world, to untangle your thoughts. It therefore brings clarity which helps in investigating your inner character. I believe, prioritizing your inner character and asking the ‘big questions’ will ripple into a bigger meaning.

The ideas in your mind are like bubbles which are about to burst into nothingness. Writing your ideas down concretizes them and take a life of their own once outside their minds.

Writing is the only thing in this world which I believe I have complete control over. It helps to dissolve the uncertainties of our daily thoughts. With deliberate practice, it has been a medium which brings control by practicing a craft. This is a skill that I have evolved from rigorous notetaking from discussions, bookmarking when surfing online and browsing through different reference materials. You may never know, which idea may strike you to improve over time.

I think – grammar, punctuations and spellings are not as important as your ideas and intent behind. It’s a meta-skill which does not need any fancy equipment. Just time, passion and dedication.