How Content Writing Lets You Engage With and Experience Life to the Fullest
Let’s face it. We are all on a biological one-way street. We have to experience the richness and diversity of life.
I tend to think about different things, all at the same time. That is how I roll, and that is how my mind works. Sometimes, the thought processes come together and I can get one writing idea from it.
My mind wanders in different directions based on what I see, what I read and what I do. Weird as it sounds, I can crank up my neurological gears for writing content, writing newsletters, planning for a weekly livestream, crafting emails to my clients all at once.
At rest, my mind is busy thinking about the next steps and the steps after next.
The grey matter gets high on its own. And thought bubbles do not burst even after rapid expansion. I create more mental space up my head by extracting these thoughts bubbles one by one.
I write to free myself. I write to straighten my thinking. Thought bubbles run in circles. Writing takes that ball and converts it into a line, allowing readers to travel from Point A to B.
Ultimately, writing allows me to experience life by assuming multiple identities as I wish. To me, writing is reflective, progressive, and freedom-expressive.
Writing is Extracting the Bad and Retaining the Good of our Past
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
Many people diss the process of reflection. They believe self-reflection brings us back to our past and keeps us there. I beg to differ.
We do not have to continuously think about the bad things, events, toxic people that have walked into our life previously. Not easy, I know. Plus, they make good content writing material.
But writing is a social magnifying glass. We think about what we write. We write what we think.
When we write more about that snippet of our past we want to forget, the more we cannot forget about them.
I write to reflect. Call it a journal of sorts. I write electronically, on paper, occasionally on post-it notes. I write negative emotions and events out of my brain.
Note: For me, I feel better dumping the trash outside. And it can be a good exercise because when I do, I extract ideas for the next article. Ideas extrapolate themselves when we stare at our own writing.That is not the only way to reflect-write. We can write about the good things that happen to us. When we write them down, we anchor happy memories into our mental repository.
Many of these good memories become my content on distribution. Like winning a client deal that I posted on Linkedin. Like sharing my livestreaming experience on Start-It-Up.
Writing them, refining them, sharing them makes me happy.
Writing is Progressive. This is the Purest Form of Self-Engagement and Deep Thinking.
“If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words — you won’t find it. You can learn every language and read every word ever written — but you’ll never find what’s in your heart.”
We are obsessed with finding answers. How to get the 5-digit viewership on our Linkedin, Instagram posts? How to get people to read our work every single time we publish?
We invest in our progress whenever we think about our work and how we can make it better. Ranata is right. Some answers are never in the open.
They do exist, however. These answers are away in a treasure chest hidden in the deepest, darkest dungeon nested in our hearts.
First, we have to go deep in our hearts and minds to locate the dungeon where the chest is. Next, we have to open the chest with a key. Reading what we write is akin to debating with ourselves. Imagine a conversation happening between you-today and you-yesterday.
You will start thinking of the following:
- Geez, why did I even think of writing that?
- Maybe this part has to be tightened further.
- This segment has to be elaborated further.
- This topic does not do justice in writing. I should put it onto the Livestream for a lively debate!
- Why did I write this? Is there something deep I want to share with everyone out there?
Tip: A review of our writing is progressive in nature. We can edit a good piece or a suboptimal piece of writing. We cannot edit a blank page. The process of constant editing makes us better writers, personally and professionally.Writing is Freedom-Expressive. There are a Million, Billion, Trillion, Gazillion Ideas Waiting for You to Write.
I like to read. Reading a variety of topics fuels my need to write. Clarity of thought is refined when I write it.
Also, writing it out allows me to indulge in an imposter syndrome. It can be satisfying to imagine that I am writing because I write.
Haha, kind of cute! And not just that. I get to assume multiple identities, from a side-hustler to an investor, to a venture manager, to a consultant, to a pre-sales senior manager in my day job.
Daily experiences and exposures enrich my life. I synthesize them through writing and staple them using perspectives. That is how I get website copywriting deals from clients.
I have no direct dealings in the logistics business. Or the real estate business. Clients from those businesses approach me because I can write in their language.
Also, they recognize that I can write for the layman. The writing explains what the business is about and why customers must buy this product or that service.
For that one month or so, I live a life of a logistics-writer-professional. I might be a real estate freelancer writer for the next.
Summary
“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
Hemingway is right. And I will add one more point.
We can experience a different life through writing too. You need not be a Theoretical Physicist to write abstract logic in equations. Yet, writing it allows you to take a quantum leap in understanding it better.
It applies to content writing. You can never understand the difficulties of content writing until you start doing it.
It is then, you will understand why we love doing it. And why do we bitch about it when we are slapped with dismal results.
Writing is reflective, progressive, and freedom-expressive. Oh. I forgot to mention one more attribute.
It is highly addictive.
You will always want to give birth to more words once you are on this journey. Just like experiencing the best of life, this journey is a one-way street. And it should be.
As a content contributor, I write my observations from daily life and my business exposure. Because our life experience is the bedrock of our unique perspectives.
