Sporadic Whispers: Musings of a Part-Time Writer

Oh! the lies I tell myself The cloth I tie over my eyes And the songs I put on To drown out the voices in my head The promises I made myself To move on, to let go and to change I am waiting by myself in this crowd Thinking, wishing and praying To be freed from these self-made shackles That bind me to my past And keep me from reaching forward And finally breathe in the colors of life And so I write For that's the one thing That brings me the closest To the freedom I so desperately seek And pour out concoctions of feelings And thoughts that run deep in my heart

Over the years I have always told myself, and even others, that I love writing and that I will one day write and publish my own book(s). But at the same time there were many instances where I had to ask myself if I really loved writing because I rarely write and sometimes even when I muster up the will to write something it is mostly complaints to myself for not having written for a long time. And as of late I have been asking this very question to myself more frequently and really trying to understand why I ever set out to become a "writer" in the first place. Language has always amazed me since I was a child. I loved seeing how people could communicate in all these various languages and also how some people knew so many different languages. I loved how it could be used to communicate ideas and tell stories about anyone, anywhere, anything and everything. But being fascinated by language for me didn't make we want to learn all these languages. My thought was the ability ...

Whenever I stop and take the time to think about where my life is headed, I stumble upon a question, a question I am sure everyone of us has asked ourselves at least once and that is am I doing what I love doing? And a follow up question hits me: what do I actually love doing?  I tell myself and others who ask me this question that I love reading and writing but to be honest there are enough evidence out there that support my answer. I neither read nor write constantly. I do, however, have a list of books I want to read and things I want to write about and I constantly keep adding to these two lists. That is actually the only kind of reading and writing I do most of the time: write down names of books, songs and movies and ideas for writing and then read them whenever I stumble upon the lists.  If you are someone who has read a few of my old posts, you might be familiar with my pattern. I make a bold statement or a promise to myself that I will read and write constantly and ac...