Writing as a reliever

Facebook, Instagram, twitter...a host of websites that you read on a daily basis and you forget that once upon a time you used to write and that writing used to be a fun exercise, a stress buster and also a great reliever.  Verbal diarrhea was welcome. Writing was fun. It gives you a chance , at least for a while to sound of and revel in your thoughts without being interrupted. It does wonders to the ego for no one contradicts you. You create something and those few lines make you happy. 

Having said that, writing also brings its own set of problems, especially on online platforms. Nothing remains anonymous for long and given the current state of affairs there is a lot of self censorship. You wonder long and hard if you really must make your position known to the world, even if your blog has a readership of none. But somewhere deep inside, there is a desire to persist, to write. To write... not to make a living... but just write, not worrying about the number of words or the grammatical errors. To write without worrying about meandering off the topic and to write whatever you want to.