Writing

For me, writing is about healing. Why?

Because if you cannot think clear enough to be able to heal yourself then it is difficult to make decisions useful to your own survival or the survival of others.

Survival isn't just about physical survival, it is about spiritual survival, it is about emotional survival, it is about being able to communicate enough with people in your life as well as communing with nature in a way that helps heal you too.

We are all wounded in various ways by the mistakes people make around us as we are growing up.

Most of the time the damage done to us is not intended.

This is why I easily could forgive whatever mistakes they made in raising me.

However, at a certain point we need to find our own way because our parents reaction to whatever happened to them growing up isn't what we need because we had a completely different experience than they did even if they grew up in the same place we did. Still, we had a completely different experience than they did for a variety of reasons.

So, as a result our lives will be different in a variety of ways.

So, finding your own way forward especially in your 20s is often a life or death quest.

In my own life the things that nearly killed me by 15 also helped me better survive my life as an adult.

Often things that happen to you are not good or bad but usually both. So, what happens to you helps you survive the rest of your life ongoing in many ways.

There is a saying: "Anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger!" And in many ways this is true.

Often the things that waylay us growing up we learn from enough to survive the next trials in our lives.

In some ways I had it easier than most people I knew in the 1950s and they often died before I did. But, in other ways the whooping cough, the Concussion and seizures at 10 to 15 years of age in the long run made me more adult than my friends so I didn't die of the things they died of because I wasn't silly like they were because I had almost died several times before I was 15. This made me serious enough to survive whatever came after that.

So, it's true in some ways that: "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger!"

For me, writing is about healing so I can help heal others that I love and care about along the way.

At one point I was studying to be a psychologist, but instead I became married and a father and had to support my wife and son. So, this was good too. So, I became an entrepreneur instead by starting and running businesses or buying businesses because I didn't like working for other people unless they were relatives of mine.

So, the years of study to become a psychologist has helped me and others along the way.

However, I realize I'm not a good enough listener to have been a good psychologist so I'm glad I became a father instead because that is something I was better suited to. I was an only child and having my own family made me feel less lonely and alone in my life. So, this was good too.

IT allowed me to stay close to all my children and to stand by them always no matter what they were going  through.

Writing for me at least is always about healing. Healing myself and others in the past, present and future of the entire universe.

By God's Grace