The power of WRITING

How many times have people used a pen or a paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?

- AN Keerthana Rao

A wonderful adage woven by the pre-eminent English author, Virginia Woolf. I read that quote in a book, and it had me pondering for quite some time, as she clearly promulgated the mighty power of a pen and a paintbrush overriding everything else.

Starting with that, I am here to present my ideas on the 'power of writing' to you. Rooting back to where writing actually sat in my schedule and etched in my mind were the monstrous pandemic times. It was when holding a pen came to my rescue. I started writing my own poems, own anecdotes, epigrams and felt a relief as I inked down. It was then that I realized writing has become my escape route from pain and the remedy to pain both at once. I wrote incessantly, and I always was well aware that it relieved me, but the power of it was depicted in how reading my musings impacted people.