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I have a personal blog where I share my life experiences: https://www.rxjourney.net https://www.rxjourney.net I've been writing for years—mostly sharing on my
by chistev 2y ago
I have a personal blog where I share my life experiences: https://www.rxjourney.net https://www.rxjourney.net
I've been writing for years—mostly sharing on my WhatsApp status for friends, posting some on Facebook (though my account got suspended last month for ‘account integrity’ issues), and saving some pieces in Google Drive just for myself. But late last year, I decided to take it a step further and start a blog.
Right now, I have just 21 subscribers, but it’s amazing to know that there are people who genuinely enjoy what I write. I got a heartwarming email with these words:
"Just keep writing. Not for readers or for any allure of income, but for yourself. You will thank yourself—I have no doubt."
That message, and others like it, mean a lot to me. Writing is something special. As Carl Sagan beautifully put it in Cosmos:
"Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."
The full quote is -
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic."
- Carl Sagan.