- Yes, anyone who is able to communicate to others in writing has advantages in life: Expressing one's own opinion, describing things, explaining connections, consoling, admonishing, teaching, demanding justice, standing up for the weaker, cheering up, or just having a good time! Writing has many facets!
But it also makes sense to write something down for yourself: on the one hand, useful thoughts are further developed and remembered later, but on the other hand, things that have become unnecessary are written down “from the soul”. And: I can write anytime and anywhere! Even at night, when the whirring of my lathe would disturb my neighbors, or in places where it's not allowed to bring a carving bench! So let my writing exercises on the following pages inform, comfort, admonish, entertain you... but above all motivate you to write something down more and more often!
Current day-to-day business and the worry of not having a secure grip on our future often leave many people with little time to remember. Other contemporaries seem to constantly live in the past: they often bore us downright by telling us the same old stories over and over again. I think allowing yourself a moment of leisure every now and then to write down things worth remembering can help you to merge the past, present and future in the moment: by writing down what we once experienced and now remember, we can let go of the past. When we tell stories we will relax and soon our often unfounded fears about the future will be dispelled; we live in the here and now!