To writers, there is nothing more significant then writing. To the writer, writing is more important then anything else he can do. It is more important then making money or having fun, relaxing or taking a jog.
All writers struggle to explain their passion for writing. There are books that collect essays trying to articulate the reason why anyone would give up everything else just to sit alone in a room deciding where to put the comma, where to brake the sentence.
To me writing creates significance. When I write something down, when I put in the effort to spell it out, it is important. The words capture a seemingly passing insignificant moment and portray it as something critically important.
I don’t have control over many aspects of my day. What I can control is my reaction to them. A car passes by me and someone is nice enough to wave and say hello, that’s nice but unimportant. If I capture that moment vividly and with great detail, then in a year from now going back and looking into my notebook, I read that description, and that moment becomes the most important, significant and memorable part of that day or maybe of that whole month.
So I write to create significance, I how that today, the sixteenth of Iyar, there was something on my mind, something important enough to write down.
Now, in the blogging era I don’t even have to convince someone – an editor – that my writing is interesting and marketable. All I need to do is click a few buttons and my writing can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Now, that is very significant.
Chasidus explains that every Mitzvah we perform ads spiritual light in Atzilut. Every Mitzvah we do creates change and adds light, We can’t see this light, but there is a realm where the act is of great significance.
I spend a few hours, I pour my soul out on paper I post it on my blog. Walking home I don’t see any change in the world around me, but I know that there is a sphere where I did make a difference, I accomplished something beautiful. This can be accessed anywhere in the world all you need is the right equipment.
2 comments:
Great post!
I just didn't get the thread so well. At first the point is how writing creates significance and then the conclusion is how we can now see how writing something down is seen by anybody who has the tools?
Yossi,
You know what they say, if you have to explain a joke then it’s not funny any more.
The blog is a metaphor for a reality that is very real – ask the people who made billions of dollars on the web – yet you can miss it if you don’t use the proper tolls to tune in to that reality. The blog is significant albeit not to the naked eye.
Atzilut is a realty, you may not have the right tolls to appreciate it, it’s a realty none the less.
The post in your diary is insignificant on some level, but with the proper attention, every moment is a lifetime.
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