I began writing in a journal when I was younger and it just grew from there. I started realizing that writing down the thoughts shuffling through my brain helped me get past feeling so depressed all the time. It obviously didn't take away my depression, but it aided the pain.

In later years, I started using drugs to numb my pain. That technique only lasted so long but, I still continued to use drugs. In the end that road only made me feel more depressed and extremely lonely. So I began writing again. I wrote to feel. I wrote to remember. I wrote to forget. Once I got clean, anytime I had an urge to use I picked up my pen and wrote beautiful colors of words on a page and it felt amazing. It was better then any high.

So I continue to write. It frees me from myself.