Why I Bother Writing

I will be the first to admit it : I never expected to enjoy writing this much.

I didn’t fall in love with writing because I wanted to “be an author.” It happened in a much more ordinary way. I’ve always been the kind of person who needs answers. No matter what happens in my life — or in someone else’s — I can’t help asking why. Why did that person react like that? Why do we repeat the same mistakes? Why do humans do things they know are bad for them?

I’ve never been good at accepting “it is what it is.” If something doesn’t make sense, I keep digging. I observe, I search, I read, I question.

But in the beginning, even when I found a solution, it didn’t always feel real. The idea would make sense in my head for a moment… but a few hours later, it would fade. It was like the answer was there, but it was floating. Not solid enough to hold onto

But the moment I started writing things down, something changed.

Once an idea is on paper, It becomes more than a thought. It becomes something you can actually look at. And when you can look at it, you can test it. You can improve it. You can notice what’s missing. Writing forced my thoughts to stop being vague and start becoming clear.

And in my reaserch phases, I started realizing something important: if you really want answers, you don’t find them in noisy places (like most social media platefroms ). You find them in what’s written. In books. In the work of people who sat with a problem long enough to understand it, and then took the time to explain it properly.

I became obsessed with non-fiction authors for that reason : because they could take chaos and turn it into something useful. They shaped their ideas. They rewrote them. They refined them until they became practical enough to apply in real life.

At some point, I remember thinking: This is what I’m supposed to do.

Curiosity was always part of me, but writing became the bridge between my thoughts and the real world. It took something invisible in my head and gave it form. When I read a book it feels like i am, in some sort, connected to their minds, and i wanted to give the same impression from myself to other poeple by writing my own books. And my first was The Unwasted Life.

Farid writes.