Writers can be exhausting people to be with.
Writers can be difficult to understand.
They live in their own world and the only glimpses of their world you will get is through their words.
They are broody and moody and see everything that happens around them with only one perspective in mind - how do I write my next story, post or book based on what I just saw or experienced?
They care deeply about the rights and wrongs - black and white - and all the shades in between - they will not talk about it though - they will write about it.
Their world is made of words, stories and characters - they live with them - talk to them - breathe life into them - they can make words swirl off the page and make them real beings.
They can be inspired by the smallest of things - the most inconsequential of events - things you didn't know existed.
They are entertainers and motivators - their words can lift you up - their words can be your best friends who stay with you on your journey - the inner voice that guides you onto paths least trodden.
They are dangerous and can wreak havoc with their words - for words are their weapons and they weild them like masters - words that can tear you down - smash everything you ever believed in to smithereens.
They are powerful - their stories of love and strength can soften the hardest of hearts - inject hope in the most dejected soul - shatter barriers.
They are persuasive - their words can make or break relationships - start fights and even wars.
They create everlasting memories - stories that stay with you - their characters who speak to you - you can live in the worlds they have created.
They can transform you - make you better versions of yourself - lead you to success and happiness.
They can transcend barriers, cultures, time, language - their words often transporting you far beyond a physical realm to depths of a new reality never before heard of.
They can rise above the noise of our unforgiving world - the noise of our hectic everyday lives - the noise of our own thoughts and emotions.
"Who wants to become a writer? And why?
Because it’s the answer to everything … It’s the streaming reason for living.
To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
—Enid Bagnold