Writing

I have written a lot since I was about 8 years old because I was an only child and I found starting when my oldest cousin died at age 16 when he accidentally ran a car into a house with his friends in Seattle then I found myself afraid and feeling very alone at 8 years old. It was the first death of someone I knew personally in my life and it scared me. However, by writing a lot and doodling a lot I found I could calm down and comfort myself as an only child dealing with the death of a loved one for the very first time.

So, by the time I was 12 and my mother's father died I could deal with death a lot better than I could at age 8.

What I'm saying here is often writing what you are experiencing down helps you to process whatever you are going through. It also can release the stress out of your mind and body also so you are less likely to get cancer from holding all your feelings all bottled up and unhealthy.

So, writing can literally save your life if you learn how to comfort yourselves through writing. So, you become your own parent or therapist or priest or minister in this way too along the way. At this time when I was 8 both my parents were mystical Christian Ministers in Los Angeles and my mother from my ages 6 to 12 years of age conducted about 300 funerals or more during this time. So, she was used to counseling and comforting people in this way. My father was good at counseling too as he was the valedictorian of his High School Class as well.

So, by putting down what I was experiencing at that time with pencils and pens in a notebook (usually a spiral notebook with lined sheets of paper inside like you often use at school, that I could lift the terror of growing up int eh 1950s off my back and begin to cope better with whatever I was experiencing then trying to grow up while many people seemed to die like flies of all ages around me.

At that time I fully expected to be dead as a soldier by age 18 to 20 in a nuclear war. But, luckily neither the nuclear war happened (or if it did it was fixed by Time travelers) so we didn't have to remember experiencing it (except maybe as dreams after the fact) at the time. I was 20 in 1968 and in college studying to be a computer programmer and a computer scientist at that time. I got a good job working with computers in North Hollywood and bought myself a brand new 1968 Camaro because I could afford a new car then.

The real point of all this is one can heal themselves by writing so they don't have to die of fright or self destruct in some way when they don't need to. By Praying and writing you can often heal yourself and eventually if you make it to 30 years of age live a very long life like I have.

by God's Grace