Write and Keep Writing!
I just clicked on the "GOOGLE" sign this morning and read a surprising story about Hedy Lamarr. I always thought her name was Edie. I had no idea she had a patent which became important to our communication progress.
I love to read fabulous things about women. Hedy not only was gifted in theater, but in the sciences. And she dared to run away from her husband, which at the time was something women were afraid to do, culture in those days didn't support leaving your husband, regardless of the circumstances.
http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
Reading about her on Wikipedia made me think, "I wonder what her story is from her own point of view? I wonder if she ever told anyone the fears and obstacles she encountered leaving her husband. If she kept a diary?"
Our stories will never be told from first person if we don't write. Telling someone your story to someone you trust is a great release for most of us. But writing allows us to touch on the realities we're not comfortable telling anyone. Even the things we feel no one is able to understand from where we stand, from the fit of our shoes are important. The bottom-line is when someone tells our story for us, it is no longer "First-person".
Our reality is as significant as anyone elses. We have our five senses and only we can put the puzzle of reality together for ourselves.
No one can smell a newly brewed cup of coffee like me, no one can feel the sun on my face as I do, no one can witness an act of violence as I have, not anyone is able to hear a child sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" from my perspective and no one can peel a pomegranate and taste the flavor as I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7j3RHqQWlk Child singing in video
Write! Write and tell your story. The short epitaph on your gravestone (if you decide to have one) can't sum up your life. And how many of us write their own before they pass, anyway?
I love to read fabulous things about women. Hedy not only was gifted in theater, but in the sciences. And she dared to run away from her husband, which at the time was something women were afraid to do, culture in those days didn't support leaving your husband, regardless of the circumstances.
http://www.women-inventors.com/Hedy-Lammar.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr
Reading about her on Wikipedia made me think, "I wonder what her story is from her own point of view? I wonder if she ever told anyone the fears and obstacles she encountered leaving her husband. If she kept a diary?"
Our stories will never be told from first person if we don't write. Telling someone your story to someone you trust is a great release for most of us. But writing allows us to touch on the realities we're not comfortable telling anyone. Even the things we feel no one is able to understand from where we stand, from the fit of our shoes are important. The bottom-line is when someone tells our story for us, it is no longer "First-person".
Our reality is as significant as anyone elses. We have our five senses and only we can put the puzzle of reality together for ourselves.
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No one can smell a newly brewed cup of coffee like me, no one can feel the sun on my face as I do, no one can witness an act of violence as I have, not anyone is able to hear a child sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" from my perspective and no one can peel a pomegranate and taste the flavor as I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7j3RHqQWlk Child singing in video
Write! Write and tell your story. The short epitaph on your gravestone (if you decide to have one) can't sum up your life. And how many of us write their own before they pass, anyway?
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