During my time in personal development,can remember someone mentioning,they must find their WHY!!!!!!!!!
Okay.....as I thought to myself.
What I concluded is ones deepest WHY,
Is about contribution,serving others.
But then it makes me ask...Is that why poets write poetry??????
To impact a world they will never genuinely know in this life time?????
WHY connects to WHO!!!!!!!
WHO we write for impacts our WHY!!!!!!
I tend to only write for myself.Only myself.
When I wrote for people,I hated my work.
Now if its a business,understood.
However,I treated poetry like a business and that's what ended kill my love for poetry.
Because if I wrote poetry for people,quality of my work suffers.
If I tend to write for myself,my work grows.
I find WHO we write for impacts the WHY we stay connected.Perhaps this is personal development shining through,but who do you Covers write for?
I mean, in a semi altruistic way, I like to think I write for others. What I mean is: there are so many poems in the world that I connect with because I relate to it, of course I want people to relate to my poems.
That being said, even though the thought of people relating to my poems is wonderful, it's not my priority. I am a selfish writer. I write for me. It's therapy for me.
For most of the past two years, I've been writing based on prompts but even then, I'm exploring a memory or a relationship or something.
And then there's the therapy poems where I throw a bunch of words at the page and hopes something sticks.
On a more personal level, I'm not good with engaging with my feelings or talking about my feelings and writing is the best way I know how to do that.