My "Reason Manifesto" for Creating a Writing Habit

The reason I want to start writing is so I can...

• Write the book I couldn't find (per the advice of author Austin Kleon)
• Take advantage of the benefits a writing habit can bring (I keep finding more)
• Benefit someone else through its exercise (whenever possible)
• Give voice to my thoughts and ideas (physically, whether by the pen or the key stroke)
• Share what I find and the story behind it (because everything has a story)
• Create opportunities for community-making through the sharing of experiences (finding my tribe)
• Remember more life events after they have long passed (because my memory is short... very short)
• Use it to stimulate my personal inner (and outer) exploration (which feels adventurous to me)
• Have a "ticket" to participate in greater things that writing can provide (I'll know them when I see them)
• Synthesize other areas of interest into the same forum (like an intellectual collage of "found subjects")
• Become a journalist for my own life (like a collective memoir... or tall tale, not sure which yet)