River Brown

I have written about why I write, but today I saw that it is not about why, but the need to write.  I have all kinds of reasons to satisfy why I write, but that doesn’t matter.  What matters is that I NEED to write.

I need to write because:

1. I am alive
2. It is typically the only way that my voice gets heard
3. A therapist is too expensive, but writing is free and in my world, I need all the therapy I can get
4. The thoughts in my head deserve to live on paper.  They are precious and as unique as me.  I owe it to them to get them on the page
5. Life is confusing and it doesn’t make sense until I write
6. One day I will not be here, but my writing will
7. No one else has my life so I must share it
8. When I don’t, I can feel God’s hot breath on my neck and I feel guilty
9. A child, somewhere, must know that I feel what they feel and that there is hope
10. I am Mexican and others have to know that I am as human as them

Writing is life.