To write or not to write, is not the question.

Some days you can try to conjure up a topic to write about, whether it is a passion or just something that passively irritates you. It’s not easy to just do it. And it can become very exasperating when the library of your mind is elusive or checked out.

It’s a force that has to come together naturally. It could be partly inspiration, influence added with a cocktail of knowledge and experience. And most importantly, free flowing semantics and their ability to capture the reader’s attention, imagination and thoughts. What are the keys that unlocks the flow?

One is to get out and explore so you can experience the differences between you and you now. The taste of a juicy orange showering exuberance to your senses as you can’t wait for the next bite. The dehydrated, non-malleable orange usually gets tossed after a couple bites. That’s only one type of fruit that can stimulate and motivate your senses in different ways.

Consistently exercise your brain on issues you agree and disagree on. Create conversations with people of dissimilarity to open your mind to other people’s ideas, perspectives and experiences. You don’t have to agree but it will help in your own personal growth and understanding of other’s circumstances and how it affects them and you.

Finding subject matter, that sizable, dense log that feeds the fire inside or a talking point that flames the fire, creating an intensity of thought, while calmly finishing through with the passionate contemplation of the talking point. Read books and articles daily on subjects that inspire and immerse you to sit and read.

As I develop my writing and its subject matter, there are moments when I wrap things up swiftly and other instances I need an extended period to digest, meditate and contemplate it thoroughly.

Even if you’re not a writer, these life experiences will help with, savoir faire and also ameliorating your lifelong journey.

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