Why I write

Someone recently asked me why I like to write so much, and what it is about it that really makes me love it. At the time I couldn't really come up with a simple answer because honestly I don't really have one.
I love writing for so many different reasons, and each thing changes and depends on what I'm writing at the time.
   Writing is another form of art to me. For a long time I used to like drawing, painting, chalk, and all sorts of physical artistic mediums but in recent years I've had some medical issues that have made creating those images the way I used to nearly impossible, and some day I wont be able to do it at all. When I started writing it gave me something new to work with, something that even with my complications I'll be able to continue to do.
   Writing lets me put my feelings into a cohesive and comprehensible line of thought. It gives me the chance to explore ideas, situation, and memories all at the same time and in what ever order I want. I can create things, explore them, feel them and live them all through what I write. It gives me a medium for complete self and surroundings exploration.
   Sometimes when I really get into a story and creating a character, for a short time I even become that character and in a sense take on that persona. The words they say reflect how I would react, how I would feel, or how I would want things to go in some little way. This is why almost any story you may read that I've written tends to be in first person. Writing lets me try to take on and under stand a situation from more than one perspective and way or thinking. It helps me learn, grow and develop my sense of self and how I handle things.
   More than anything though, there is a tiny little piece of my soul in everything that I create and it makes me feel thrilled and alive when I finish and share something with people. It gives me a way to shed my fears of rejection, my shyness and everything else that holds me back when I'm face to face with someone, and instead show them a little piece of the person that I really am.