Post by drnick4u on Oct 1, 2014 1:48:46 GMT -5
For me writing is more than putting a group of words together. First let me say that writing has allowed me to express myself, even when I was unable to communicate with others because I was feeling down. Writing in my journal (some use the word diary), that I started over 20 years ago, has helped me on so many levels. The journal was started to expel all the sad emotions that filled my life 20 years ago. It also allowed me to keep my sanity, when I thought I was losing it all.
My case may be much different from many others who turned to writing for an array or reasons. My reason was because I had suffered a life-altering tragedy and needed to express myself then all alone with four very young children. The idea that I was now put in a position to raise four children on my own seemed almost impossible to even think of, but, I had no other choice. Well, I guess if I was a bad parent, I probably could have surrendered my children to relatives or to someone looking for four good-looking kids. But those thoughts NEVER entered my mind. I love my kids, and needed them as much as they needed me.
Another reason why I got into writing. I wanted to journal my life which had now went from happily married to that of a single parent; because of something that neither I nor my late wife could have ever predicted. After I lost my wife and mother of our four children, writing was one of the only things that give me an opportunity to release some of the feelings I was keeping suppressed within me. Such feelings or anger, anxiety, frustration, sadness, depression to name just a few.
Then, one day two years after I became a single parent I decided to go to college at a local community college. From that point forward to this writing, I have gone from not really a good writer, to someone who has published a few articles, and has gone from a academic writer which is what college teaches you become; to my current status as a scholarly writer working on my dissertation and earning my doctorate degree. I also am in the process of publishing my first book " All in a day's work"; a true representation of what it was like to raise 4 kids (2 sons & 2 daughters) alone and as a man, in a world dominated by single mothers.
Writing is a great way to share your inner thoughts and hopes with others; or can be keep as a keepsake that you can hand down to your children after you are long gone from this world. In any situation, writing has allowed me to realize my "inner" me better than any loving relationship that I have been involved in.
My only regret is that I did not believe in myself more when I was younger. I always had a "love" for writing, whether that is a non-fiction type, to writing poems, to writing scholarly papers in my current doctoral program. My hope is that others will find a passion to write as well, even if its just for your own self-worth, and mental/emotional stability.
One of the things that I noticed with writing, the more you do it, the better you get.
Regards,
DrNick4U, EdD(expected 2015), MABC, B.S., A.A.S.
My case may be much different from many others who turned to writing for an array or reasons. My reason was because I had suffered a life-altering tragedy and needed to express myself then all alone with four very young children. The idea that I was now put in a position to raise four children on my own seemed almost impossible to even think of, but, I had no other choice. Well, I guess if I was a bad parent, I probably could have surrendered my children to relatives or to someone looking for four good-looking kids. But those thoughts NEVER entered my mind. I love my kids, and needed them as much as they needed me.
Another reason why I got into writing. I wanted to journal my life which had now went from happily married to that of a single parent; because of something that neither I nor my late wife could have ever predicted. After I lost my wife and mother of our four children, writing was one of the only things that give me an opportunity to release some of the feelings I was keeping suppressed within me. Such feelings or anger, anxiety, frustration, sadness, depression to name just a few.
Then, one day two years after I became a single parent I decided to go to college at a local community college. From that point forward to this writing, I have gone from not really a good writer, to someone who has published a few articles, and has gone from a academic writer which is what college teaches you become; to my current status as a scholarly writer working on my dissertation and earning my doctorate degree. I also am in the process of publishing my first book " All in a day's work"; a true representation of what it was like to raise 4 kids (2 sons & 2 daughters) alone and as a man, in a world dominated by single mothers.
Writing is a great way to share your inner thoughts and hopes with others; or can be keep as a keepsake that you can hand down to your children after you are long gone from this world. In any situation, writing has allowed me to realize my "inner" me better than any loving relationship that I have been involved in.
My only regret is that I did not believe in myself more when I was younger. I always had a "love" for writing, whether that is a non-fiction type, to writing poems, to writing scholarly papers in my current doctoral program. My hope is that others will find a passion to write as well, even if its just for your own self-worth, and mental/emotional stability.
One of the things that I noticed with writing, the more you do it, the better you get.
Regards,
DrNick4U, EdD(expected 2015), MABC, B.S., A.A.S.