Writing is one of many forms of self-expression. It’s about releasing a part of yourself, and allowing the whole world to experience it. There are many secrets that lie within the individual, only to be relased in a note scribbled in a notepad or typed upon a keyboard.

There are many ways one can preserve an emotion, time, or place in the future besides writing. There is photography in still and motion, and audio recordings. All of them came after the written word and seem to lose some of their meaning when recorded. Writing only includes what the individual thinks is important and my exclude things not noticed or overlooked by the individual. Writing is best for capturing an individual’s emotions at a specific time.

We evolve every second, and it’s impossible to go back in time to fully understand the context of each sentence. Nobody can revisit a particular thought. Words are only as good as the fedality of the emotion they represent. We have to be careful not to distort the word from it’s orginal context.

I certainly do not know how to fully write down my experiences. As soon as I experience something, it changes me in a way that I can not go back. I see the world different minute by minute. Things have changed in my life since the last word I wrote was written, and I can never truly go back to that time in my life.

I close my eyes for a moment to pause and think about what I just wrote. I’m already in a different place, despite breathing the same fresh mountain air I did a minute ago and hearing the same sounds of nature from a minute earlier. I’m doomed in keeping the past alive, but I’m not particularly saddened as I know I can experience other great things.