Me: Beautiful sounds so artificial,I don't understand how a person can be beautiful, I can see prose being beautiful, or the ocean.But not people - people are complicated and pushy.
Her: A person is beautiful if someone can look at them and smile.Anyone - Words are superficial, feelings are not. Beautiful is a feeling.
Me: Words aren't superficial, not for me.
Her: Words are letters. They only mean something when they incite feeling. Why do you write, Nur?
Me: To get away from myself, away from my mind, my heart, my being..
Her: So basically you write your feelings out of you?
Me: Pretty much? It sounds so tranquilizing.
Her: So then what makes you like a poem or prose?
Me: Nothing. That's the problem.
Her: What differentiates good poetry from bad?
Me: Cliches, feeling, imagery.
Her: You feel something, a connection or a disconnection. Doesn't matter. When it's your heart and not logic, when it's unexplainable, hard to control, easily changing...
Me: But I don't have inexplicable emotions
Her: You are impossible.In a recent conversation with a close friend, I came across this question of why I write? What is the purpose? What are my motifs? Do I feel and write or write and feel? Do I try to convey emotion without experiencing it? WHY do I write?
We are the Y Generation, the millennial generation, the creative entrepreneurs, the people who are a bit more narcissistic than the others, the environmental activists, social rights advocates, the healers, the liberals, the geeks. We are the vloggers, the creators, the dystopian novel writers, and we are the people who ask WHY?
I
initially wanted to video blog, but I decided against it due to my lack of
expertise in video editing, the fear of facing my face, and my broken English
speaking skills. So, I opened a writing blog (this one), and ranted about the
problems in my life. But people mature, and every passing day I grow into a
more aware person with an indefinite yet shaping purpose. Inside my mind, there
are thoughts like tangled up earphones and no coordination like abstract art. I
write to clarify my mind, and in the process maybe spark something in someone. Teach
and educate, make people think, make people act.
In
my opinion, without changing people’s minds, we can’t change the world. And what
better way is there to access someone’s mind other than writing powerfully?
Lots
of threads,
~Belle