"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition." - Graham Greene
There are so many things going on in everyone's head. Some are painful and traumatic while many are also beautiful memories. There are thoughts of different nature; worries, concerns, fears, dreams, etc. In a day, your mind will pop up with thousands of these, depending on what trigger them. If you don't pause to look at them, you will keep on feeling, acting and living the same old habitual way.
Anita Brookner said that you never know what you will learn till you start putting down your thoughts on paper. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. And Anne Morrow Lindbergh quoted that writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
It is important that you become aware of the same thoughts and emotions that keep coming day in and day out. You should put them down on paper for self-disclosure so that you can analyze and deal with them.
Just pen whatever is hurting you. Write your life story if you wish to. Forget about grammar. You don't have to send it. The person who hurt you may have been dead and gone for ages. Release and let go of your pain. Then keep or burn it. It will release a tremendous amount of bitterness.
You can use the form below to write and pour your feelings.
Release your hurt and bitterness by writing it down. Let it go.
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