National Write Your Story Day, celebrated on March 14th, is a day for everyone to write down their story.
The History Of National Write Your Story Day
National Write Your Story Day was started in September 2017 by Mitzy of Mitzy TV.
Mitzy is an author and artist originally from Jacksonville, Florida, and is active on Facebook here.
The Purpose Of National Write Your Story Day
I can only assume that Mitzi’s motivation for proposing this holiday was to inspire people to write their stories. What a great motivation.
Writing is a unique activity in that, people from around the globe, in nearly any condition or socio-economic situation, can write a story. Some of the best stories come from people surviving the direst of circumstances. Nothing evokes an emotional response more than reading about a person overcoming severe hardships or injustices.
Ways You Can Celebrate
Grab your favorite journal, your favorite pen, and your favorite chair, and write. Tell a story, any story.
Sometimes starting to write without a clear outcome can elicit a hidden and long-forgotten tale from your past. Words have a way of triggering memories, and those memories, when written down, grow into a story.
How I’m celebrating This Great Day
Today I am doing just what I suggested above. I am sitting down and writing in my journal. I’m not quite sure what I will write about yet, but that’s the point, isn’t it?
Perhaps I’ll write about the time my friends and I decided to hop a train.
I’m not sure who’s the idea was, and I’m sure alcohol was involved.
One Friday evening, Kevin, Joe, Kurt, and I thought it would be a great idea to hop the local train. It wasn’t a fast-moving train, but it was moving.
Joe was the first, and he swung up with ease. Kurt was next, but the train’s speed was increasing, and he had a difficult time, he held on by both hands with legs dangling for a few feet and finally pulled himself up onto the ladder.
I was next.
Even as a teenager, I have always had a penchant for going first. I hate waiting. Waiting causes my stomach to churn. In class, while waiting for the others to present, my stomach would boil. I would sit with my knee bouncing, and my hands were shaking. The later my turn was in the class, the more nervous I became, and the more terrible was my presentation.
Hopping the train was no different. If I had gone first or even a quick second, I wouldn’t have had time to think bout the danger. I would have been fine. But I wasn’t fine. I was nervous, I was worried, and I was scared. And, well, I chickened out.
One consolation was that Kevin didn’t jump either. Whether from camaraderie or his own fears, he never said, but he stayed behind with me. We then walked the tracks until we caught up to the other two a mile or so down the tracks.
Much ribbing was involved, and I promised myself, if we ever jumped the train again, to go first.
Now it’s your turn
We all have a story in us, probably many stories. Likely yours is more heroic than mine. This holiday allows us to put pen to paper and write one of our stories.
So, grab your journal (see our journals at The Amazing Office) and a pen and write your story, because everyone has a story.
Today’s Quote
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.
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