As a child I always enjoyed writing. Anything. I would copy paragraphs from magazines and just write it over on a piece of paper. For me writing essays in school, must have been the best part in school (besides hanging with my friends at break time, of course!)
Now you know in exams, you need to choose 1 out of a few topics for your essay and this one time for Afrikaans, while reading through the topics, I got super excited when I saw the topic “EK WONDER” (In English it is “I WONDER”). The reason for my excitement was because my late best friend, Sementhe and I used to lay on my bed and we would just wonder about absolutely everything LOL! Like why the sky is blue, why the sun is yellow, why the grass is green, you know that type of stuff. And we would wonder who ever came up with the names of everything that exists, HAHA! I started writing my essay and I enjoyed every moment of it, I couldn’t put down my pen, needless to say, I received a 95% mark for my essay. I was super chuffed!
I always enjoyed writing poems and put it up my wall in my room. I enjoyed letting go of my emotions onto a piece of paper. I mean, it’s the same as talking to someone about what’s going on inside of you, without being questioned, without being judged, without having to explain anything. It would bring such relief to me, like it would literally just make me feel better, make me feel lighter…
So that’s where it stopped.. In high school. I never wrote again, I didn’t even keep a journal again until about a year ago. Where it all started again. I got myself a journal and I started writing, and oh boy, it’s almost like I released the little girl in me again! After months of journaling, I realised there are so many people out there afraid of speaking out, afraid of saying what they feel, afraid that if they did, that they would be judged, and because of that, I decided to write publicly, by starting to blog. I want people to know they’re not alone. I want people to be able to relate to what I’m writing about, because I’m not writing about the lives of others, I’m writing about MY life, about MY personal experiences; and so many of us go through the same things, without knowing.
Different people have different reasons why they blog. The reason I decided to blog, is because I want to touch the lives of others. I want people to be able to connect with what I’m writing, and therefore I’m trying to be as authentic as I can be about what I’m writing. From my personal experiences, the moment I can relate to someone’s story, I immediately feel better, in some way.
If I can touch the life of just one person through just one blog of mine, then my heart jumps with joy, and it motivates me to write more. Blogging just means so much to me at the moment, because it connects people, it connects people’s hearts, and that brings me so much joy and it makes me feel like I’m fulfilling my purpose in life.
We were not meant to do life on our own, we need people we can connect with, even if it’s just one person, even if it’s just for a moment.
xx Ilze xx
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