Prompted Shorties

Why I Write

Prompt: This week's writing prompt is a bit different than usual. Instead of telling us a fictional tale, we'd like to read about the why behind your wondrous words. Describe in the comments—in under 500 words (and in this case, brevity is best)—the reason why you love writing. 

Response:

I searched deep and hard inside myself for my "why" and I've come up with this.

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I was never much of a talker, nor was I a good one. People might think I'm a mute because I rarely talk, it's only because I have nothing to say. In my life up until now, I was never around people who I can freely talk about something that I liked or someone whom I shared interests with. I had those before, when I was in grade school. But life happened, so it was cut short.

After grade school, I was becoming more and more quiet than I was before, I was becoming more shy, more introverted in a way. I had classmates, yeah, but they're more like acquaintances to me, I could never really consider them as friends. Friends don't just cut off relationships with you just because you're irrelevant to them now and just pop up later when they need something from you. That's not my definition of a "friend".

So after high school, I got more quiet – I don't know if it's even possible – and I was acting out because of puberty.

It's right there when I realized that I was never going get good at speaking to people or interacting with them verbally. But I had all these feelings that I wanted to let out inside me, all cooped up from when grade school started. So what did I do?

I wrote them. Then I realized that, writing was a good way to express my feelings, my thoughts, my dreams, my imagination, my hopes, my...self. I thought I started writing because it was all just a phase, but it's not. Writing helped me cope with life, it let me channel my emotions through my works, it helped me become more...ME.

So maybe that's my "why".