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​Today I was asked what writing meant to me. For a while, I just paused and thought deeply. To me, what is writing?

The first thing that came to mind, I kid you not, was a line from one of my favorite poems: “I no longer know where you end and I begin.” It was the perfect fit, exactly what writing feels like to me.

I used to see writing as something I needed to do in order to become someone. I thought that if I could write better, I could one day write like Chimamanda, or if my poetry rhymed better, I could one day be Huwa. Writing was a means to an end.

But my coach helped me see that writing can be a lifestyle, not something done out of ease, but something practiced habitually, like breathing in and out.

So essentially, writing is not just what I do, it is who I am. It is, in the words of Logan “Favour Okwanyionu,” as I live and breathe. Not something I have to do, but someone I have to be.

This reflection took me back to my writing journey, and I found myself smiling. When I first came to my coach for mentorship, he did not give me any writing tasks for months. Instead, he constantly emphasized becoming.

Every task was channeled toward becoming, because as you become, you are better equipped to express, and ultimately, to do better.

Dearest reader, When you allow yourself to become, expression follows naturally. Writing then stops being a performance and becomes a posture of life, one where every breath, every thought, and every experience finds its voice on the page.

@favvy_Okwans🖤.