August 11, 2007

Writing out wounds

When you start getting the hang of writing, it appears very inviting to load it with all your pain and disturbance and in the process, get rid of them. Or, you try to sort out conflicts, or less serious confusions in your mind using writing as a tool. It is "writing with a purpose" as they call it. And slowly it becomes a necessity to have a problem in possession before you sit down to write, so that you can solve it by writing. And like that begins the painful process where you scrape your own wounds just to have something to write. Wounds, which were healing and should have been left to time. With this scraping, the wounds remain evergreen. The idea of letting time heal our wounds doesn't seem to appeal to us. We want to feel the satisfaction of healing them more actively. We end up cutting out the wounded area in order to remove the wound, leaving a deeper wound in the process.

It sounds a little far-fetched, so may not be true for everyone, but may be true for some far-fetched person.

1 comment:

Rambler said...

writing anything, may be dairy or even blog is a journey..I think one surprises themselves along the way