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Friday, 28 November 2008
Why do I not smoke but write and talk . . .
Posted by
S. Susan Deborah
at
5:52:00 pm
a quality that i am very proud of! why do i not smoke but write and talk? let me make myself clear that i am not against smokers or smoking. maybe i have some health concerns with being an active as well as a passive smoker but absolutely nothing with the quality of smoking. i am sure about that, you see. well, that is why i prefer to talk and write. talking with people, writing long hand written letters, tapping away mails on my computer and off late writing these blog entries. i frankly do not know who is following my blog, i do not even know whether anyone is remotely interested in reading my meanderings and ramblings but still i write. i write for me, myself. like hamlet who said, "let me and my bosom debate a while." this quality of hamlet struck a chord with me during those days and still is struck to the being, that is me. well, that is why i precisely write - to allow a debate with me and my mind, heart or whatever. the 'high' that one gets from smoking and drinking and see it as a way to lift oneself from whatever situation (maybe they genuinely feel it that way), i do with writing to people and of course talking to people. for a long time, i did not talk, the way i am talking vociferously now. i kept myself from talking and sharing but now i talk and talk and meander and coax people to follow me, my thought processes, my feelings and my pains. by talking i share and force my inner dialogues to hit the outer realm, i.e. my mouth. when i talk, i get responses, maybe they are responses that don't make me comfortable, maybe they are responses that scare me, maybe they are responses that soothen me BUT i get responses nevertheless. what say, reader? smoking and drinking can be a social affair or an individual one but there are side effects like cancer (i cannot think of anything more) but talking and writing, do they have any side effects? maybe they do, of a more deeper kind. whatever the case, they are not as painful as the insides being slowly eroded. and talking and writing is an addiction worth flaunting. that is why i write and talk instead of smoking.
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I don't know about Hamlet's talks with himself, but according to this (http://health.yahoo.com/tips/coffee-talk-it-rsquo-s-good-for-your-brain/realage--6593.html) study, having a good conversation, however brief, is definitely good for your brain! :)
ReplyDeleteWell Rohan, thanks for that! I never thought that son=meone would comment! Well, nice to have met you like this!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. :) Came to your blog through "the real meaning of security" below, while searching for links for a post of mine.
ReplyDeleteThe side-effect of writing is that it becomes your legacy, something to pass on.
ReplyDeleteDear Elizabeth:
ReplyDeleteThanks for digging my older posts. It gives me a lovely chance to go back and look at them which I very rarely do.
What you have said is absolutely true and I fully endorse that.
Joy always :)