There are always those friends who help you solve your problems. Such friends can be classified in 2 categories,
1)”I’ll-get-it-done-for-you-friends”
2)”Here-is-a-philosophical-solution-friends”.
I come under the second category.
I remember giving mental support to my friends since when I was 6 years old. I’ve always been good at it. Or at least that is what I’ve always thought I’ve always been. I even have some frequently-answered-philosophical-replies (something like “have you tried turning it off and on again?”). And among those solutions, my favorite solution has been -“Why don’t you write”!
I always thought that it was the best solution for any kind of a problem. You feel much, you think much, you get anxious, you write, you get better! I give this solution to most of my friends when they come with their problems because writing always helped me with my problems. Writing makes me feel relaxed and that relaxed mind then helps me think about the solution to the problem and eventually problems get solved because of writing (indirectly, it helps).
But the real question is, “Does this help always?” or “Does this help everyone?”. These questions hit my mind recently when I was feeling anxious because of some reason (about which I’d write in some future post) and a friend of mine gave me the solution I had given to them in some point of their life. And the questions hit me because I couldn’t write! That is when I knew how those friends used to say that they just can’t write. That’s when I understood them why they used to say that “Writing helps you because you like writing”.
Well, but I was wrong again. A friend of mine recently said that he started writing in his diary and it is helping him solve his problems with less anxiousness. And I can say that I was wrong because now I know that when someone says that you should write to feel good and you think that you won’t be able to write, you still should write. It won’t be easy to do it. You might not get even a single word to write about, but then you should just start. Just start with whatever comes to your mind. If writing is all that is in your mind because you can not write and you are told to write, write about writing!
That is what this post is! I’ve written about writing because I know that this is the solution I love the most and has helped not only me to solve my problems, but this has helped my friends as well. You can always give it a try.
Come on, give it a try! And if you can’t decide from where to start writing, start with commenting on this post! 🙂
~meyotov (Viraj)
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