Through writing we can get in touch with more of the aspects of ourselves

 I often see people as fragmented pieces of the universe trying to glue the pieces of ourselves together in such a way that we can survive our lives.

If you have grown up in the 1950s like I did you might better understand what I'm saying here. Children were to be seen and not heard then. We were not usually supposed to speak much to adults then. We were expendable then in some ways more than now.

I think this is because many more of us died then so people didn't want to invest so much time and money and energy into us in case we died. I watched many children disappear which usually meant either they had died or had moved away while I was growing up. Often one never knew which had happened unless someone was kind enough to tell us. Even then I wasn't always sure we were being told the truth.

But, in some ways maybe this is still true for many people. 

At least I tend to surround myself with people who are more truthful than most people I knew growing up. 

It always seemed that the truth was always very hard to come be even here in the U.S.

Only wealthier people could afford much truth to be spoken in their lives then (in the 50s) and even that wasn't true if they were famous.