Because I realize I can’t speak English well without writing in it.
How about work? Isn’t everyone else in your office speaking English? Yes, but that’s office English. When I find out that I have heard or said or written all of these (Via Imick)every day since I started this job, I knew why I could not learn more of English.
On the other way, I was caught between many a pairs of conflicts in mind. Baby is the most cared subject- but don’t want to be that kind of parents that worship baby so much to record every moment of the parenting; knowledge on industry and technology are growing stronger from work and reading, but don’t want to think about work-related subject after working hours; started to pay attention on finance and investment (also a new interest since the baby came-for obvious reason), and watch Jim Cramer religiously, but hate to write about money; passion for art and literature burnt inside, but seem to lose the aesthetic sensibility to all of the above.
when I started blogging 5 years ago, I named my blog “Practice”-I omitted “English writing” to make it sound cooler. Looking back, I find that the time when I blogged frequently and enthusiastically is when I felt most comfortable in speaking the language. I thought I could take it easy once the ability is established. I was wrong. Even the thinking activity weaned withered. Writing keeps the flow of the thinking and more often than not, it stimulate more thinking. Without thinking in writing, I feel like a sitcom segmented by ads-you can always catch up the plot-but the same plot day after day. Maybe you are what you eat-but what you write.