Why the Title?

After much deliberation (believe me), I decided to title my blog "I write therefore I am."  Maybe you have heard a similiar statement before.

Writing is art, architecture, and history.  It is what we are remembered by and how our lives and our existence are preserved.  Because I write - in my journal, on my blogs, in poems, and in fictional stories - I am therefore preserving bits and pieces of myself.

Of course I am not the only one that does this.  But I thought of it first. :)

So why isn't the title, "I am therefore I write"?  It could be; and that, too, would be an interesting statement. 

Most, if not all, human beings feel compelled to leave evidence of their existence through whatever means they can.  For an increasing number of people, their choice of self evidence is writing.  I won't give you the stats on the growing number of bloggers, but I know it's a positive number.

Not all people, however, choose to express themselves by writing.  They create other things, like paintings, buildings, gardens, or... other people. 

My primary choice of self preservation is writing.  So, not everyone who exists writes, but those who write... exist.  Not just currently, but as long as their writing does.

Maybe that's one of the reasons why I've chosen words as my primary means of leaving evidence of myself - because it will last (at least I hope so).  Maybe it's because I am best at creating things with words - people, situations, beauty, mystery, color, sensation, conflict.  I do it with words, and I revel when the results of my words seem to provide as many answers as they do introduce new mystery into the world.

That's part of the fun, too, I guess.  I cannot just give my descendants a journal of letters addressed to them saying, "This is how you will remember me.  The End."  I have got to keep those people guessing and wondering and puzzling over my true "self"ness.

I like to be mysterious.  And more often than not, the subconscious ideas that find their way through my writing say a lot more about me than I can ever decipher or communicate consciously.