“There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.” ~ Albert Einstein
I’ve always been fond of Albert Einstein's words. This one is one of the favorites I like to go back to and reflect on when I feel like writing, but I don’t seem to have it inside me or in the groove to write a complete sentence.
It reflects how life is not only about reading other people’s stories and ideas, but that we also get to design our ideas and write our stories.
You might not be a writer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t write.
Writing to oneself is something we can do to convey a message to our soul. We can also get inspired by it and explore our lives in ways we could not have imagined.
In the same way, we get enlightened and gain more knowledge when we read books written by other people, the same way we can write to ourselves and arouse something deep within us.
For example, the meditation by Marcus Aurelius is one of those books that was never meant to be read by anyone. It was a journal and a letter to himself about his troubles, hardships, and pain. This book, however, became published and has helped millions of people around the world to gain from the stories and experiences.
I bet he has read countless books and has learned a lot from them too, but he got to that point in life where go got to realize that there are problems that can't be solved by using the ideas from other people's books.
In life, we have to figure out what kind of difficulties and obstacles we are being faced with before we get to seek help or search for a solution.
However when we go on a quest to find ways of solving our difficulties but found none anywhere, then it's time to develop and create our own solutions based on our own personal experience, and that can be done effectively by writing them out and not thinking it all out with our head only to forget later.
Do you write to yourself for reflecting and finding solutions or do you let others do the job? Feel free to share your comments below.
Thanks for reading
Until next time...
