I have been writing my whole life in the form of stories, essays, and journals, with not much attention to the craft of writing, since mostly I haven’t shared them. They rest in paper piles, folders, and notebooks, and these days in dusty computer files.
About five years ago, I decided to put some of my ideas and work into fantasy novels. And it took that long to develop a narrative writing style that I felt was acceptable and good enough to put the novels out there.
Along with the novels, many ideas, thoughts, and questionings have found their way into short stories, social media memes, and essays that will also appear on this website periodically.
Years ago, I became interested in my family’s genealogy. My research of family historical records provided basic data (dates of birth, marriage, death, etc.) about my ancestors. Still, it lacked the most hoped for and interesting information - what those distant relatives thought, what interested them, what they believed, and what they valued.
So to that end, hoping to someday be a subject of ancestral research by future relatives, I have incorporated in my fantasy stories moral dilemmas, parables, and thoughts on the sciences that most interest me - psychology, sociology, and neuroscience.
Why write? Why share? Well, because it aligns with my take on the meaning of life.
Most of my life, my curious mind has been hell-bent on trying to understand human nature and even our purpose, whatever was possible for me to discern with my limited human capacities.
Although human life and individual lives are a mystery, I have settled on a purpose for myself.
So here it is: I have decided to believe that the purpose of life is to pass on information, simple as that, doable. And by information, I mean information in the broadest sense, not just knowledge or facts.
I’m not saying I have solved the mystery. I have just made a conscious decision about what the purpose is for me based on what I have learned.
At a biological level, we transmit information through reproduction, passing on our genetic code from generation to generation. Also, we do it instinctively in our families, providing life lessons for our children. And, of course, we do it formally in our various educational systems, passing on standardized knowledge. Finally, in broad terms, our entire culture is a vehicle that passes on information; how to live, what’s moral, what isn’t, how to survive, and how to thrive.
I feel that if you have something to share (knowledge, interpretations, viewpoints, observations, wisdom, or questions) you should do it.
So, here I am sharing.