Except for 2016, the year that Zen Master had his stroke, it’s turning out that 2019’s the next watershed year for me. For it’s in this year that I became a writer. The strangeness of how all this came to pass has led me to this idea of a writing series on being a storyteller on Medium. Talking about the behind the scenes is not only fun but therapeutic. My muses’ll always be Zen Master and Zen Mum but it’ll be helpful for me to organize my thoughts because I truly believe the Universe is with me as I compose these stories.
Truly, I sometimes really don’t know where the exact words come from, but I know enough that it’s coming from my heart.
Looking back at tremendously stressful work and home events that were happening earlier this year, I see now the unbelievable confluence of all of these happenings that blew me off my normal day-to-day stuff that made up my life.
Which ultimately led me to a therapist who pointed me to the idea that I should seek a creative outlet. Do something besides work and home. Do something that was essentially self care for myself by just speaking out. Internalizing everything (which I have done to a science) was no longer working. In fact, it was eating me alive from the inside out.
But I found that I didn’t just want to speak.
I wanted to SCREAM.
Becoming a Storyteller.
So I dusted off my dormant family blog, it remaining untouched since 2012. But that alone was no longer enough. I was compelled to take it further, compelled by something that I’m still trying to “hear” with my heart.
I’m a huge fan of podcasts and YouTube: ghost stories, motivational and inspiring stories, and content creation for social media platforms, like Pinterest and Instagram. Figuring out some kind of structure for my whatever-I-needed-to-say urges helped me organize them just a little bit.
There’re tons of content creators and I’ve a short list of faves that resonated with me. But the one who introduced me to Medium was Roberto Blake of the Create Something Awesome YouTube channel.
I never once thought of being a storyteller.
To Be Continued.
Photo credits: Carli Jeen on Unsplash
Link to Lost in My Thoughts on Medium.com.
