I have realised many things over the last couple of months:
Most importantly, I've realised it is time to start writing my blog again, this time in all honesty.
Secondly, I've found out that being an emotional writer is a good thing. Like my good friend Anna said: 'We wear our hearts on our fingertips while typing'. I like that thought. A couple of weeks back I handed in a piece at Uni called 'What Truman Capote could not teach me about writing'. It was the most personal piece I had ever written. It was a piece I wanted to write, a piece I needed to write. I had no idea whether my teacher would like it or not, and for the first time I did not care. Two days ago I got it back with the best mark I had ever gotten on creative work. My teacher wrote it was 'an outstanding piece, it's quirky and original and warm and funny and mad'. She encouraged me to publish it. I was stoked, honest and vulnerable writing had a place in academia. Sincerity is not dead.
Which leads me to another recent revelation of mine: chivalry is not dead either. More about that later. Maybe.
I've realised life is too short to spend it writing about things I don't care about. Wear your heart on your fingertips or don't write at all.
And finally another thought (or rather opinion) I would like to share is that there is no such thing as a realistic take on life, we are either pessimists or optimists. I honestly believe that finding happiness is a matter of choosing the right truth. I don't believe in an objective truth, and many so-called realists and believers of one truth or no truth would claim I am delusional or naive. That's fine, but I'm not willing to spend my life in misery just because the world is a tough place to be in. I believe realism is the condition we're given, pessimism or optimism is our choice. A choice which in turn determines our happiness. But then again, all that is my truth.
I am thankful for the people who have recently come into my life to remind me of why I became a fiction writer in the first place.
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2 comments:
Åh, du er så flink Mari! Og jeg er så stolt av deg!
Du skriver ekstremt bra, og jeg lurer på hvor det skal ende. Det må bli noe bra, det er jeg sikker på.
Engelsken din har det også skjedd mye med, jeg klarer ikke å henge med i svingene lenger. ;)
Og det innlegget der følte jeg absolutt kom rett fra hjertet. Det var sterke ord, og jeg ble rørt.
Takk Anita, for kommentar og at du tar deg tid til å lese mine emosjonelle skriblerier.
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