Next Time I Think I Will Quit Writing - Note to Myself

There are times I have been exhausted, or frustrated, or both and have contemplated collecting all my pens and pads and sitting them aside and just stopping this thing called writing. It has some years happened that I reach such a point two or three times. But I never have.  I can’t tell you what has stopped this process from proceeding to the box point, but it is probably something in my internal system that ultimately throws up a block.
 
People have spoken of writing in the context of breathing. They can’t live without it. Maybe there is an internal mode that throws up a stop sign when I get in this kind situation and will simply not allow me to shut down.
 
So, I thought this would be a good point in time to list a few reasons that I have to write as I move into the new year. So, here is my list:
 

• I write for the future. I write for immortality.
• I write for the past.
• I write for the present – I write for witness of things that should be remembered and understood.
• I write for the inner child in me.
• I write for people who have no voice.
• I write for those who have had their stories quitted from governments, from insensitive or hateful people. From those who practice hate for those of difference from themselves. race, religion, nationality, sexual identity, gender, etc.
• I write for myself. Yes, myself.
• I write because of teachers.
• I write for love; I write because of love.
• I write for God – sometimes of curiosity, sometimes of questions. Sometimes of praise.
• I write for my family; I write for my grandmother who I was very close to.
• I write for peace.
• I write about war.
• I write for music.
• I write for pets.

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