WHAT TO WRITE

WHAT TO WRITE

Writing as a hobby is not easy and is therefore not very common. Finding topic to ponder upon and finding the right words to describe what you are writing about is not just like walking along the beach and enjoying the surrounding. But sometimes you will wonder why some people like the columnists and other opinion writers could quickly gather words and arranged them so easily to say many things about anything.

It is not the amount or number of words you know that matters, for even Abraham Lincoln did not use so many words to express his highly appreciated addresses and opinion on almost anything. He played his words so well that even a simple joke or a simple idea could create a kind of picture so big and so powerful that it affects all readers.

Blogging is one interesting way of putting your experiences, plans, ideas, opinions or what have you into writing. It doesn’t matter if no one reads what you write because you are writing not for anyone but actually for yourself. Then you find yourself so absorbed and so carried away that you forget about stresses and ailments. You wonder why you feel so good and so healthy if not so fulfilled or actually younger.

Writing for your blogspot is very similar to gardening. You choose your words the way you also choose your plants. You arrange your plants in groups or in line or in whatever geometric figure that satisfies your ego. Likewise your word arrangements are important only if they first satisfy you before your readers.

The beauty of a garden doesn’t necessarily depend on the aesthetic presentation of the colorful blooms but on how it personally appeals on your taste. So in blogging you record for posterity what you think touches you more everyday.

Whether it is blogging to learn how to write or writing to be able to blog is not important. Both are good for your health especially if you are a senior citizen whose peers, colleagues, friends and companions mostly have gone away without even having a chance to use a cell phone.

I will keep on Writing/Blogging instead of enumerating my pains and loses; instead of taking this pill and that; instead of using a walking stick or ‘riding’ a wheel chair; instead of staying in a nursing home or being confined in a hospital because this hobby is therapeutic, entertaining and rejuvenating.