Why I write

I'm not an expert, but a student.

So I write not to give advice; but to learn. I write to discover what I know, and to reveal what I think I know, but actually don't.

Writing, for me, is a form of thinking, of paying attention to what I see and imagine and learn. Sometimes, if I get lucky, my writing results to something that has meaning, like a reminder for myself.

For example, I wrote 'On Anger' because I want to know how to calm myself when I'm angered. I had suffered the consequences of anger countless times, enough suffering for me to want to avoid reacting to anger again. So I gave it my attention. I gave it some thinking and meditation - the result is this blogpost.

My blogposts are souvenirs of my thinking. Nothing more. If I sound like I'm giving you advice, it's actually an advice for myself.

But I'm sharing the results of my thinking with you because:

1. I'm afraid that if I don't, they'll get lost.

2. To force myself to engage with what I'm learning.

3. To get feedback, and to start a conversation with you (if you also care about the topics I care about).

4. And lastly, I hope that you'll get something from it. It may be in a form of a contradiction to my point (I've learned a lot of things from knowing what I don't agree with). Or, maybe, a deeper perspective about something you find important.