The Gift of Creativity

We all start out writing for ourselves. We write because it rewards us in some way. The act of creativity always has the potential to offer a gift to the one doing the creating. Some of our writings we never share, either because what we have written is too personal or because we know or fear, it isn't objectively good enough to communicate properly with others. When someone we know composes their thoughts in a journal or a private story, we are blessed by that. As readers, we long for those special words that seem able to say the very thing we needed and wanted to hear without perhaps even knowing it.