What is the whole point of writing? If I'm being honest, it's so you don't forget about me. It's so I feel like I'm not alone in this world. It means so much to me when you read what I write. I cannot lie about that.

I am constantly thinking about writing, it is as if my life had two tracks stuck on top of each other. Life and writing, traveling together. We can't do without each other, this world wouldn't make much sense otherwise.

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When I was young, I wanted to learn swimming. My brother had weekly swimming lessons at a country club, and I spent many evenings accompanying him, feeling envious that he was learning to swim. I told my mum I wanted to learn swimming too but she said just go for your creative writing class, boy (my brother's nickname at home) already learn swimming, you go and learn writing*.

All throughout secondary school and JC I enjoyed writing. I always gave everything to my compositions and essays, despite being only average at my other subjects. I didn't want to just be above average at English and writing, I wanted to excel.

I stumbled upon the book "Radical Honesty" by Brad Blanton and I like it very much. It's made me think a lot about a lot of things. It's made me reflect on my own honesty on so many levels. It's made me think that writing without honesty is not really writing, but just play-acting.

To more honesty, however difficult it might be.

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