I am curious.
If any reason, that would be enough. I love the sense of wonder and to ask myself questions, not taking anything for granted, life is too precious to just let it slip away.
I have an urge to get the most out of life, and see writing as a pathway to clearer thinking, to distilling what is inside me, and to express it to the world.
If you started cooking, you would start eating better. And if you start writing, you start living better. You become aware of the ingredients.
And once you become more aware,
You start observing better, listening better.
Yes, you start really listening to conversations. And you start looking around you so that the world becomes more interesting. For example, if you experience a waiting time, you can become curious about the surroundings or have time to ponder on your own story line and thoughts. Or make fictional characters you alone can create. Out of nothing!
Writing is a vehicle of your inner thoughts.
In other words, writing is an extension of the art of living. And to become a better writer, you have to live a better life. And to live a better life, you should write.
It is a virtuous circle. Your inner thoughts once distilled, flow back to you from the page and touch your soul, enhancing the quality of your life. By freeing your mind and filling it with creativity – you find a cleansing process in which thoughts transform worries to possibilities and transform routine into a quest.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. And by capturing and mixing, with simply a notebook and a pencil you can write.
If you can write, you can change your own world.
You don't sleepwalk through life.
And writing is FREE. The best things in life are, but it has become so obvious that most people don't appreciate what is always there.