How Chaos Can Bring Exciting Ideas and Lessons for Your Writing

You can get inspirations throughout your life

In an ironic twist, I tend to write more when there are more problems with my life. I have an ongoing game I play with myself to see how many articles I can write per week. When I have fewer articles to write, that usually means my life isn’t filled with problems.

However, when turbulence abounds, I tend to have topics I love to write about from the outside world.

Since I have written quite a few this past month, that must mean I have a chaotic life!

Does this happen to you as well?

Here are a couple of topics that spring out from my chaos:

1. Lessons learned from childhood

I love writing about my childhood and the craziness it has given me growing up. It is a way for me to decompress and write my feelings down, and having an audience read and leave comments gives a boost in healing.

I could talk to friends and family about it, but there is something about taking time to craft an article and pour your heart out that makes writing on this platform worthwhile.

Writing about the lessons I learned in childhood also feels second nature since I am always writing from the heart and innocence. I always hope that readers can connect to it because being a child usually is the happiest time in our lifetime because we are free from responsibilities and can dream whatever we want.

2. Lessons learned from attending school

This is the part of my life that is my transition period, where innocence is lost, and difficulties start to arise.

I notice that many negative feelings of failed expectations and disappointing results fuel my ideas in my writing.

Everyone is different, obviously, but I feel like pointing out these are the best material to use for your writing.

I could write about computers and programming language, but it would be not very interesting and, frankly, kinda dull. To be brutally honest, I have also tried to write those topics, and it takes so much effort and time; it just isn’t worth it.

However, if I wrote about my academics and my struggle through classes and being an introvert, my fingers fly away with such speed; it is easily ten times better than writing about my current job.

3. Lessons learned as an adult

As much as I try to write my lessons learned as an adult, I am surprised at how little I can contribute to it. It’s not that I know everything (clearly, I don’t!), but I feel like I am constantly learning new lessons in life and being an observer looking inside.

The more I meditate on it, the more I realize that I shouldn’t be too concerned about not writing enough articles about life lessons. That can mean I am still in the process of “adulting” and learning as I go.

I am still trying to write and provide people with lessons, which is a fantastic reason to continue writing and spreading the love.

Thank you Diana C. for the June 7th prompt!