How Writing Has Changed My Perspective on the World

I think life is dull without all the dramatics.

Poetry in itself is dramatic. You could write a poem about a sofa and make it emotional:

“It brought comfort to all,

lives imprinted on it,

and still, no comfort for itself.”

My point is that no matter the subject, there’s always a deeper meaning.

Writing is another form of a photo. You take photos to remember an important moment in your life, so you're able to look back on them and reminisce. Similary, you write to capture a moment or a subject in a different way. It’s almost like living the moment twice, but in two different ways.

Writing in itself can be as powerful as your emotions, it’s just expressed differently.

My perspective on the world as a whole is cynical. Bad things are bad, and good things are good. But being able to turn a traumatic experience into a beautifully written poem, throws my ideology out of balance, because something bad can’t be seen as good.

In a sense it can’t, but it can be seen as something that’s not necessarily bad, but different. It can be seen as development, or realisation. The bad can be used for good.

So how has writing itself changed my perspective on the world?

Well, it has taught me that there are many ways to perceive something, and there is no right way. There could be thousands of stories written about a subject, all from completely different angles and perspectives, and there’s no way of saying which is right and which is wrong.

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” —Anaïs Nin