by Kristal Mcvicar

Created on: April 11, 2008

Opinion Versus Experience?

I'm not sure how other writers write, or why. I can only relay my experience and my knowledge. Opinion is a function of our brains, experience is what we encountered in our life's journey.

When my life is touched by an event or a person, I instinctively write about it. Those things and people I encountered could be much like things others encounter in their lives, and yet it is my intellect, my ability to string words in a certain rhythm that allows the writings I compose.

Many in life could experience the exact same set of circumstances within their lives, and how they relate that experience into the written word, would be completely different.

Our thought process, our brains if you will, determine how we see, interpret and relate the experiences in our lives that touch us.

We all have the ability to feel love, pain, compassion, empathy, sadness and all other emotions. However, it would be the function of the brain, our thought process, that filters and interprets how we receive, explore and relate those emotions.

I have written thousands of poems (and other writings) throughout my life. It is how I relate the circumstances of my life. It is a natural process for me, that would not I have been blessed with intellect as well, I would not have the ability to do.

I realize there are those who research subjects so they might write differing things. I do not. Words naturally flow through my brain to relay my experiences in a cohesive and healing manner based on my exposure to life and its experiences.

My brain and its attitudes and opinions are a culmination of years of living and the environment I was raised within. My experiences mold and shape my opinion through the years, but the outlet of those emotions and experiences are filtered through the brain.

However, the emotions and/or the experiences are the ignition that begins the internal journey to begin with. I could not write about being a starving, disease ridden child in Africa, but I could write out of my compassion and empathize with their lot in life.

Poetry "IS"

You either have the ability to relate the inner stirrings of your soul through the written word, or you do not. The determining factor will always be your intellect. We all feel and experience, we are not all blessed with the ability to relate that in a way that touches other people's hearts and souls.

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