What to say when you can't find the right words to say? Nothing. Just silence. Learn to be there and nothing more.
I have been writing my travel memoirs for three months now, and there's nothing that gives me more joy than release all those untold stories inside me. A travel memoir is like a snippet of the author's life, a recount of the events in the past that is more personal and emotional. It can be quite delicate sometimes because it tells a specific turning point in life, a vivid memory which has profoundly affected the author. It is not just an ordinary travel writing, a travel memoir retrospectively reexamines an event in the past. It is one of the most compelling ways to capture the readers' emotions.
The best music and art can come from the great emotional depths that words can't often describe.
The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.
― Edgar Allan Poe
I have more words free-flowing, it tells how much I really know what I am writing about, my own life experiences that simply cannot be compressed into one essay or prose. Sometimes the events can be too complex to be simplified into writing, as I am just bursting with thoughts and emotion. It can be hard to unearth some things in the past but I found many great benefits in turning them into powerful stories. It is not easy to go back there and face yourself again, there are a lot of feelings involved that have to be put into words. Writing is part of the healing process.
In this digital age with information coming from all directions, it would be hard for most people to put more attention into something anyway. So in the end, there are really no words as most don't really know what they are reading about, just scanning and reading the most convenient parts.
It would even be harder to find the right words to say to the authors these days as most are usually engrossed in their own digital affairs, devoid of emotion. What, great post, emotional, wow? Don't you feel the same way after having read a book, do you find the need to contact the author and say what a great read thank you? And I love this part, very emotional. Some people might be doing that, but most really don't. For me, I am just simply stuck in the space, internalizing and thinking what I have just finished reading. I just let it flow within me.
I think some personal stories demand no words and feedback sometimes. No words, insight and unsolicited advice to comfort the author. Just let it as it is, read and take whatever you can take. Not even an invite for personal messages to awkwardly discuss a very personal writing or travel memoir, there's nothing more strange than that. It is like finding the right words to tell a grieving person that will not irritate or sting. Sometimes, there are simply no words, just allow yourself to be stunned in silence.
There is always a time to speak and a time to remain silent.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
