Pun Fun

Pun Fun


On writing, there is a lot that can be said. Some of it is just pure 'pun fun'.

First of all, no one has to like what I write. I really am past the age where I need to impress anyone with what I write.

Why do I write? Very simply, I write because I am inspired to do so and actually enjoy writing. I find tremendous satisfaction in timely 'resolution' of my own thoughts and feelings through writing.

To whom do I write? Sometimes, I write poetry or prose just for myself, but over the years, I have learned to write for a much larger audience than just myself, my family or my friends, although I still give them a very high priority.

I have learned through experience, that when I write to a larger audience, ie. a global audience, I quickly lose my fear of having my writing criticized. What I have found and what you will find too, is that what we write will always be subject to some kind of criticism, either negative or positive. It may be perceived or interpreted in a negative or a positive light by others and that is essentially good.

Sometime criticism is far easier to take than no criticism at all, or non-criticism, as the lack or absence of criticism, may appear to demonstrate a total lack of interest, which may or may not necessarily be the case. Who wants to write if there is no one willing to read what is written?

The lack of criticism of your work or mine, may or may not prove to be an actual situation of non-interest, as our work might just be, or have been at some time in the past, simply food for someone else's thought, destined to find its expression in another time, place or era.

It may simply mean that at that particular moment in time, criticism, negative or positive, was not perceived to necessary, or appropriate for whatever reason. Perhaps the reader was just short of time and the criticism was temporarily shelved, only to emerge at a later date, in a positive or a negative light. Who knows when or where it might re-surface in the future? Who knows whose life or how many lives may have been touched by what we have written?

In other words, criticism of our writings, will always happen at some time, no matter what we write. Does that shock you? It shouldn't.

You and I will find that criticism generally tends to happen with any writing. Criticism also tends to be 'penned' or written in terms of actual 'polarity'. This suggests either negative, destructive, critical expression of thought as criticism, or positive, constructive, expression of thought as criticism, ultimately destined by the critic either to build or to destroy. It is also possible that the critic, or would-be critic, did not have any such intention in mind and that his or her criticism is simply his or her own way of resolving thought.

We are always going to find patterns of de-constructionism and constructionism of varying degrees on a variety of levels, appearing on distinct or non-distinct planes or levels of thought. The patterns may appear to be 'concrete' or 'abstract'. That means that a pattern that has already been defined, becomes more 'concrete' in its expression, than the one that is still in its beginning stages, with distinct non-definition. An 'abtract' thought may only be an early pattern of thought that is emerging. It may become more 'concrete' at a later time.

'Constructionism' and 'de-constructionism' happen in each and every era as well. It is astounding to realize that over all of the generations, in spite of the major transitions that have occurred in terms of academic civilization, this response to writing really has not changed at all. Look at the topic of 'evolution' and 'de-evolution'.

Take a serious look at any of the master works that have been written, compiled and preserved, over the years. Be aware that this is what you will find, no matter what the source of the writing is, or from where it is emerging. Watch for this as you read other writer's works and enjoy the diversity that you find in the writings. This is part of the beauty and the complexity of writing.

What a wonderful thing writing really is!

What you will discover is that over the years, in their various writings, writers or people with negative perception, will generally build or find negative criticisms, ultimately destined to satisfy their own egos. This may be a direct result of their own fears.

Writers or people with positive perception, do not have the need to criticize anyone else's writings in a negative light. Nor do they feel the need to attempt to put the 'other' writer down, so they can be 'king on the throne', so to speak. What they may try to do, but in a more positive light, is to expand any particular 'horizon' of thought, or to essentially 'build' on what they consider to be a 'solid' ground of thought. It may actually prove to be a work of 'love'.

Thought and thus writing patterns, tend to be like 'continuums', ie. effectively demonstrating a single long line with two 'poles' of thought, ie. horizontal and vertical. This could be likened to a 'continuum' on a scale from 1 to 10, or 1 to 100, or any other 'continuum' length, with the negative on one end and the positive on the other end. Of course, either of them could much longer or shorter as well. A very simple example of this would be a 'continuum' from 'yes' as one pole, with 'no' as the other pole. 'Yes' would be '1' and 'no' would be '10' or the other way around.

This could also be demonstrated as being two 'continuums' occurring simultaneously, ie. east and west poles in conjunction with north and south poles, like a '+' sign.

The expression of 'degrees' of emotion happens in writing as well. This is also plotable on 'continuums'. Balance 'love' with 'non-love' on its own 'continuum'. Some of what we experience as emotion is expressible in an 'abstract' fashion, but some of it tends to be much more 'concrete'.

For example, a happy 'abstract' thought can be expressed as a 'concrete' joke. 'Pun fun'.

Probably the most satisfying and the best expression of thought comes from writing effective, honest 'resolution'. In other words, whatever you and I are 'wrestling' with in our minds can be resolved in terms of writing. I have found that to be true and you will probably find that to be true also. 'Resolution' does tend to give the feeling of a personal sense of accomplishment, the same kind of satisfaction that found in accomplishing a task, ie. a job well done.

In writing, I also see the 'minuses' and the 'pluses' of the 'continuum', being able to move or actually moving, in both directions. They are not 'fixed' in either time or place, although at any time or in any place, they may have been temporarlily 'fixed', or not subject to change.

I also see a 'circle' of thought emerging, ie. as if it is or was thought that is in 'transition', ie. changing or 'moving' from east to west, to east to west again, etc. around and around, gradually or even quickly 'spiralling' upwards or downwards. Different changes can even happening simultaneously. Thought may tend to go the opposite direction as well, or it may continually change direction, as the thought pattern or patterns are emerging.

Thought is not confined to east to west thought 'polarity', or west to east thought 'polarity' patterns. The same thing can happen in terms of north to south, and south to north 'polarity'. Or one can demonstrate this pattern using slanted lines, where we can see a definite 'picture' that emerges over time, like a 'star' formed out of three straight lines, all intersecting at one location, mutually common to all three.

Initially, you and I both choose our own starting point in writing and then tend to 'travel' with our thought wherever it takes us, ie. in whatever 'direction' we choose to go. This is when writing gets to be fun or 'pun fun', ie. a symbolic 'play on words'. Sometimes this is goal-directed but not always.

Seldom do we actually sit down and analyse what we have written or how we have written it.

Nor do we need to do so. Let the critics do that. They can effectively build on that 'foundation' and construct it further, or attempt to de-construct it, perhaps with the intention of re-construction at a later date or on a higher 'plain' of thought.

The mentally healthy writers and the more intelligent writers will tend to do this.

Even if they do attempt a negative criticism, it is with a positive intent or goal.

This re-construction effectively demonstrates a certain degree of freedom of thought. There is no really 'fixed' thought or thought pattern, as thought is not 'locked' in the human mind. If and when it does become 'locked', that is essentially symptomatic of mental illness.

Writing tends to become, or to demonstate a form of leadership, that continues to emerge and to develop over the years and generations, in virtually every part of the world.

Leaders as writers, give birth to leaders as writers; writers as leaders give birth to writers as leaders.

Thus we begin to see 'the power of the pen', so to speak, even in the age where the pen itself is becoming relatively obsolete, having been replaced by typewriters and now computers, at least in part.

As writers and as even as seniors, in any age, we should be doing just that,ie. becoming leaders, not only for ourselves, but for the benefit of the next generation or generations as well.

The ability to write, the art of writing itself and everything that has been given to us with respect to writing, is a gift; it is merely ours 'for a time'. It is ultimately intended to be be passed along to others. It will be over time and that is a certainty simply because writing is inherent in humankind's communication system.

Thus in the meantime, I shall continue to write because I simply love to write, critics or no critics.