EVERGREEN

12/22/2010 7:40pm

I love writing. Well, it’s not that I’m all that great at it. Though there were times when I do think so. Haha! But it is more than that. It is because I think writing is part of being me. Quiet…yet full of ideas, mostly weird ideas which I thought no one would understand but me. So I write.

I used to maintain a blog site when I was in high school. It was a fad during those days. But then I stopped after two years or so. I thought I’m using too much of my time thinking of what post could draw a lot of views and comments from my online friends.  Well, it is not that bad as it sounded. After all, it is the essence of it. Maintaining a blog site is a personal way to make oneself heard; for people to know more about your thoughts, your ideas, your feelings, and sometimes just what you’re up to these days. I had so many things in my head back then. I got tired. Instead of writing everything down, I thought it would be better to experience things as they come and forget them as they go. I need not struggle to find the right words for every experience, for every feeling, for every emotion I have felt and seen. Happy memories are kept inside. Sad ones are thrown away into the cosmos.

But then again, I love writing.  The fact that I am writing something about it shows how big of a deal it is for me. I may have gotten tired of literally writing my thoughts away but I always find myself writing my simple everyday stories in my head. It is what I want to do, what I love to do. I wish to publish a book someday. But I’m still not decided what it would be all about.

I know I still have a long way to go. That is why I decided to start simple, by blogging for example. A good friend of mine would always tell me to practice and hone my writing skills. I know that it is one advice I can truly trust. Besides, I still have a book to write soon. I need to practice if I want it to be published and recognized by the community of readers, right?

I was once asked what goals I have in life. Of course there are the cliché answers: to be successful in my chosen career, to have a family of my own, to be rich, etc. To completely answer the question would surely take me days. But the only answer I offered is this: To live a life in such a way that when I die, I would leave a legacy that everyone can remember. In short, to be timeless (but not in the literal sense of the word. Haha!).

And this, I think, is one way to be timeless…

I want to write timeless tales, timeless stories -- stories which I can go back to and read, stories to laugh at, stories to cry for, stories to learn from.

To make every experience, every feeling, every emotion… EVERGREEN.