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“When you write and it has no echo, you tend to turn up the volume…”

Those words were spoken by Amos Elon in the documentary “Another Road Home” that I am watching and they circle over and over in my head. 

When you write and it has no echo…if what you write is not heard and understood and passed on…no echo…no reverberation…no vibration…those are powerful words, a powerful thought to me. 

I can remember the moment I started writing.  Started writing because I had to, because I had to have the release of it.  I was 13 years old; I was standing outside of my school by this memorial bell that was there.  I was tormented with thoughts of suicide.  I had already attempted once and was well on my way to my second attempt and I started writing, writing everything that was in my head, all the angst, all the back and forth of why I should and why I should not and it was like turning the knob on a pressure cooker, by writing it all out, by getting it out and putting it somewhere else…I was a little lighter.

I have written since then and I just now understand how powerful that is. How powerful writing can be, how meaningful. I write what is inside me and it pours forth and out and people read it and it is either dismissed or embraced. I have written on anything that was available to me, napkins, scratch paper, books, boxes…any surface.  I never thought about my words, about anything that tumbled around in my head being read by anyone other than myself.  I never wrote for any other reason than I had to. 

One of the wonders of the internet is this medium of blogging.  It allows for things written to be cast out and there is the potential for them to be seen, to be read by others, to find an echo.